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.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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 ____________ 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.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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

• protolanguage

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

• Romance languages

• language from which a family of languages has evolved.

• tribe

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