Definitions of Different Types of Languages

A literary tradition-written form of a language. Dialect-A form of a language spoken in a local area.
Language branch is a group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages. Language family is a group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history. Second largest languest family is sino Tibetan. Both the angles and the normans contributed to the develop Of the English language because they invaded England. English is the most important language in north America because of the diffusion of English colonies. The first speakers of the language that evolved into English were tribes that lived in present day (Denmark)
English is part of indo European language family.
English Language branch Germanic
English language group west Germanic
East Germanic family is extinct
Iceland language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of icelands relative isolation from other places.
People who speak a given language migrate to a different location and become isolated from other member of their tribe isolation usually results in the defferention of one language into two.
Roman empir vulgar latin soldiers
Creolized language is a mix of indigenous and colonial languages
Flemings and Walloons live in Belgium, they speak languages belonging to different language branches
Urdu is the most important language of Pakistan
Russia is part of balto Slavic language branch
Kugans first speakers of the indo European language
Basque is spoken in the Pyrenees mountains
Renfrrews antolian hearth theory indo European with the diffustion of agriculture languages diffused across Europe
Two larges families in the world are sino Tibetan and indo European
People republic of china is sino Tibetan
Language spaoken by greatest # of people in world in mandarin
Chinese is written form of ideagrams
Hebrew is a revived language
Second most widely spoken language family in Europe is uralic
Large # of individual languages in Africa thousands years of isolation between ribal groups
Niger congo=most important language family in sub saharen Africa
Lingua franca is a language mutually understtod by ppl who have diff. native languages. Dialects developed within England primarily because of different Germanic invader settled in different regions
Similarity of british and AMer Eng. Differ except the alphabet
Franglais use of English and French. Scandinavian languages derive from old norse. Over age of 16 in chinese are unable to read or write because of large # of chinese characters. Japanese uses two systems of phonetic symbols unlike chinese. # tribes that brought the beginnings of English to the the british isles came from Germany and Denmark . Chapter4- Basque was spoken in Europe before the Indo-European languages It is now the first language of people in the Pyrenees Mountains of northern Spain and southwestern France. Survival of language military and political strength of its speakers..Language family- A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. 6 official UN languages; Arabic French English Mandarin Russian Spanish. Literary tradition- A language that is written as well as spoken. East Germanic language group- Goths were converted to other languages because of political/religious preferences. Mid atlantic=most diverse.. AMISH- 250,00019 states . 1600 Amman created amish. Housing types of china Kashgar Turpan Dunhuang Yinchuan. Tv in UKFranceGermany Japan Soviet Union,US