Language and Culture

Since language is the key element in communication, with this loss of the language comes the loss of a central part of a group's history and cultural identity.

• True

• False

Scientists who study languages

• Linguists

• Cartographers

• Language Scientists

• Isoglosses

There are about 15 families of languages, and the relationship among these language families are known as

• Language cycles

• language brances

• language trees

• language hearths

Nearly half of the world's population speaks one of the languages of the Indo-European language family.

• True

• False

Which one of these languages is not part of the Romance Language.

• Italian

• Spanish

• French

• German

The boundaries between variations in pronunciations or word usage are called?

• isotopes

• isogloss

• dialects

Variations in accent, grammar, usage and spelling create

• language families

• language trees

• dialects

What is the term lingua franca

• A language from France

• A Germanic language

• a common language used by people who do not share the same native languages.

What is a pidgin language?

• a simplified mixture of two languages

• a native language of a South American tribe.

Over time, two or more separate languages can mix and develop a more formal structure and vocabulary known as

• Cajun language

• Creole Language

• Crazy Language

• Christmas Language