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| What is a systematic means of communicating ideas or feeling by the use of conventionalized signs, gestures, mark, or especially articulate VOCAL SOUNDS? |
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| True or False: Potential vocab for any language is infinite. |
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| True or False: Language is at the heart of a culture, and culture is the glue of society. |
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| What has no history or literature and no cultural preservation? |
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| How many languages are spoken in Africa? |
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| What allows culture to be passed down? |
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| How many languages do linguists believe are spoken today? |
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| What are the two components of languages? |
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| What is an official language; a component of technologically advanced societies? |
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| What are regional variations of a standard language; such as changes in VOCAB, syntax, pronunciation, cadence, and accent? |
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| What are grouped languages thought to be shared, but fairly distant origin. |
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| How many language families exist around the world? |
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| What is the most widely dispersed language family arounnd the world? |
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| What subgroup language of the Indo-European family is most spoken around the world? |
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| What are the 2 major languages of India? |
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| Indo-European and Dravidian |
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| What fraction of the world speaks an Indo-European language? |
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| How many people speak Chinese? |
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| What are the top 4 ranking major languages? |
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| Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish |
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| How many different languages are spoken in India? |
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| What language is most spoken in Africa? |
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| True or False: Chinese is one language. |
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| What is the most widely spoken dialect of Chinese? |
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| Linguists classify languages into these... |
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| What part of China can you find Mandarin being spoken in? |
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| What is India's largest Indo-European language? |
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| Why would there be a great difference between languages in the same family? |
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| Why did Europe spread the way they did? |
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| What is the most widely spread second language of people around the world? |
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| What is the largest single language? |
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| What continent has the most number of languages? |
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| What is the most widely spread Indo-European language? |
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| What country has the most number of languages? |
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| What are dialects most often marked by? |
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| What are the languages of Africa? |
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| What are peoples who speak their language but do not write it; They can transmit their culture from one generation to the next butdo not have a written literature that can serve as a foundation for cultural preservation. |
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| What are variations of a language? |
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| Linguistic diversification |
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| The variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, governments, the media, and other aspects of public life. |
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| Regional variants of a standard language. |
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| A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurrs. |
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| Languages that are grouped that are thought to have a shared, but fairly distant, origin. |
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| Languages where commonality is more definite. |
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| Sub groups of subfamilies, consist of sets of individual languages. |
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| Spoken by about half the worlds peoples. |
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