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| Top 5 languages in terms of speakers |
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| Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic |
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| Six basic word order types & examples |
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| Sov: Japanese , svo: English, vso: arabic, Vos, osv, ova |
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| Nostratic theory links which languages? |
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| Afro Asiatic, kartvelian, Dravidian, eurasiatic |
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| What language families make up the super eurasiatic family? |
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| Indonesia-European, Uralic, asiatic |
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| Nostratic theory links which languages with what evidence? |
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| Similarities among pronouns and many vocabulary words |
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| Scots, Irish, welsh, Breton |
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| Latin, Italian, Spanish, portuguese, French, provencal, romanian, rhaeto-romance |
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| English, German, Dutch, danish, norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic |
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Baltic: Lithuanian, latvian
Slavic: Russian, Polish, Czech, bulgarian, Serbian/croatian |
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| Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, punjabi |
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| Avestan, persian, Pashto, Kurdish |
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| An inflectional form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, that indicate it's grammatical relation to other words. |
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| A case system involving special forms for the subjects of transitive verbs |
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| How can words be classified typogically? |
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| 3 major Persian dialects and where spoken |
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Iranian Persian: farsi
Afghan Persian: Dari
Tajik Persian: tajiki , also spoken in uzbekistan and russia |
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| Where are Uralic languages spoken? |
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| Finland, Hungary, estonia |
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| Three subfamilies of uralic and representatives from each group |
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Finno-ugric: Finnic (Finnish-Estonian), lappic (saami), volgaic, permic, ugric (Hungarian)
Samoyedic: nenets
Yukaghir |
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| Features of Uralic languages |
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| Lots of vowels, complex case system, vowel harmony, agglutinative |
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| Altaic and Uralic share what features? |
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| Vowel harmony & agglutination |
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| Altaic languages and families |
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Turkic: bashkir, Kazakh, Altai, Chuvash
Mongolic: mongholi, dagur, buriat, oirat
Tungusic: Manchu, nanai, evenki, oroquen |
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| What languages have vowel harmony? |
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| Finnish, hungarian, Turkish, mongolian |
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| Agglutinative, inclusive and exclusive pronouns , sov, 8 cases, gender system |
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| Ne India, austro-asiatic family |
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| 5 languages spoken on peninsula |
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| Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, basque catalan |
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| 5 languages spoken on peninsula |
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| Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, basque catalan |
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| Se Asian languages families with examples |
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| Dravidian: brahui; Indo- Iranian: Hindi, austro-asiatic: vietnamese |
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| Se Asian languages families with examples |
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| Dravidian: brahui; Indo- Iranian: Hindi, austro-asiatic: vietnamese |
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