World Geograph

Definition of language?

• Language is a type of communication that has similar meaning

• Language is a system of communication through speech, movement, sounds, or symbols that a group of people understands to have the same meaning

• Language is through speech, movement, and a group of words

• Language is a type of communication that animals and people

Language is what?

• is a means for a group of people to convey the same meaning

• is a means for people to agree with others in different languages

• means that people will not have to go to war

• means that other will never need to talk to other people of different cultures

Language Family?

• a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recoreded history

• a collection of language within a family related through a common ancestral language

• a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past

Language Branch?

• a collection of language within a family related through a common ancestral language

• a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recoreded history

• a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past

Language Group?

• a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past

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  a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recoreded history

• a collection of language within a family related through a common ancestral language

Classification of languages- Institutional

• used in work, education, mass media, and govement

• in daily use by people of all ages

• daily use by people of all ages, but it lacks a literary tradition

• used by older people, but is not being transmitted to children

Classification of languages- Developing

• is in daily use by people all ages

• is in daily use by people of all ages, but it lacks a literary tradition

• is used for face-to-face communication, but is losing users

• is used by older people, but is not being transmitted to children

What are the five languages classifications?

• pre-institutional, developing, vigorous, threatened and dying

• institutional, developing, vigorous, threatened and aging

• institutional, developing, vigorous, declining and dying

• institutional, developing, vigorous, threatened and dying

Classification of languages- Vigorous

• is in daily use by people of all ages

• is in daily use by people of all ages, but it lacks a literary tradition

• is used for face-to-face communication, but is losing users

• is used in work, education, mass media, and goverment

Classification of languages- Threatened

• is used for face-to-face communication, but is losing users

• is used by older people, but is not being transmitted to children

• is used in work, education, mass media, and government

• is in daily use by people of all ages