Jhkk

Culture Vocab Chart Word | Definition | Explain | Example | Language | Set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols used for communication. | Form of communication used amongst people. | EnglishFrenchBengali | Standard Language | Variant of language that a country’s people seek to use in schools, media, government, etc. | Used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | English in AmericaFrench in FranceEnglish in Canada | Dialects | Local or regional characteristics of language | Has different pronunciation and distinctive grammar ad vocab | South: "Y'all" North: "You guys" South: "Fixin' to" North: "About to" | Isogloss | Geographic boundary within which linguistic feature occurs | separates regions in which different languages exist | Ossetia -European | Mutual Intelligibility | Ability of two people to understand each other when speaking | Understanding what someone else speaks | Bob understand what Billy says. | Language families | Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin | Languages that came from same root language | Indo European | Sound Shift | Slight change in word across languages within subfamily or thorough language family | Change of language that affect pronunciation | | Proto-Indo-European | Linguistic hypothesis proposing existence of an ancestral Indo European language | Hearth of ancient Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit languages which link modern languages. | Scandinavia to North Africa and North America through parts of Asia to Australia | Backward Reconstruction | Tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants “backward” toward original language | Going backward to original language | “milk" in English, "melk" in Dutch, "milche" in German. | Extinct Language | Language without any native speakers | Language not spoken anymore | Latin, Gothic, Hebrew | Deep Reconstruction | Technique using vocabulary of an extinct language to re-create language that preceded it.