Ch.5 Language

Modern English has evolved primarily from the language spoken by which three Germanic tribes invading the British Isles

• Angles

  Jutes

  Saxons

• Vikings

  Normans

  Celts

• Germans

  Jews

  French

• Arabs

  Englishmen

  Africans

A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages

• Dialect

• Ideograms

• Pidgin Language

• Isolated Language

A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

• Lingua Franca

• Ideograms

• Dialect

• Official Language

A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family

• Lingua Franca

• Official Language

• Standard Language

• Isolated Language

How did English diffuse to North America?

The two largest language families are

1.​ (a)  

2.​ (b)  

• Indo-European
• Sino-Tibetan
• Afro-Asiatic
• Austronesian

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

• Literary Tradition

• Language

• Syllabic

• Ideogrammatic

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

• Official Language

• Standard Language

• Lingua Franca

• Isolated Language

The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents and idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English

• Ideograms

• Extinct Language

• Official Language

• Standard Language

​ (a)   has become an increasingly important language in recent years in the United States because of large-scale immigration from ​ (b)  

• Spanish
• Latin America
• Mandarin
• Asia
• Arabic
• Middle East