Language Flashcard

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This Romance Language would dominate the highlighted regions.

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Spanish

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The Lingua Franca that dominates the use of the internet is...

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English

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language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

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lingua franca

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What caused the distribution of English language speakers throughout the world?

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British colonization

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A language ____________ is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
Hint: The trunk of the tree

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family

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What is the largest language family in terms of spoken by most people?

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Indo-European

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a language developed from a mixture of different languages, usually through colonization.

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creole language

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a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning

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language

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the language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps...

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official language

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A regional variation of a standard language is called a: accent, dialect, isogloss, lingua franca

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dialect