Language Family Vocabulary

Which vocabulary term matches this picture?

• tribe

• origin

• protolanguage

• linguist

Answer explanation

A linguist is a person who studies languages.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

A ________ is an original language from which a family of languages has formed.

• romance language

• tribe

• protolanguage

• lineage

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

_______ languages originated from Latin.

• Germanic

• Romance

• Slavic

• Celtic

Answer explanation

Romance languages are spoken and written forms of communication that share a root in the Latin language.

Examples include Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, and Romanian.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

The O'Donnell family (a)   traces to the Gaelic chieftain Conall Gulban and his father, Niall of the Nine Hostages, a 5th-century High King of Ireland.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

English is a language that has ___________ over time.

• stayed the same

• been invariable

• remained constant

• evolved

Answer explanation

English is a language that have changed over time.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Match the following

to develop new characteristics based on adaptation and natural selection. - (a)  

group of languages descended from a common ancestral language. - (b)  

line of descendants of a particular ancestor. - (c)  

study of language. - (d)  

source or ancestry. - (e)  

• to develop new characteristics based on adaptation and natural selection.

• group of languages descended from a common ancestral language.

• line of descendants of a particular ancestor.

• study of language.

• source or ancestry.

• evolve
• language family
• lineage
• linguist
• origin

Match the following

• Romance languages

• spoken and written forms of communication that share a root in the Latin language: Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, and Romanian.

• tribe

• community made of one or several family groups sharing a common culture.

• protolanguage

• language from which a family of languages has evolved.