Language

An institutional language is used in education, work, mass media, and government. It has ______, which means it is written as well as spoken.

• Literary Tradition

• Lingua Franca

• Language Development

• A language group

A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.

• Lingua Franca

• Language group

• Language Family

• Language Branch

English comes from the _______, language family

• Sino-Tibetan

• Indo-European

• Romance

• Germanic

A collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed thousands of years ago

• Lingua Franca

• Language Family

• Language Branch

• Language Group

A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary

• Lingua Franca

• Language Family

• Language Branch

• Language Group

The world’s most widely spoken language family is…

• English

• Germanic

• Indo-European

• Sino-Tibetan

Early language families spread through…

• Relocation Diffusion

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

• Dispersion

A language mutually understood and commonly used to communicate by people who have different native languages…

• Lingua Franca

• Language Families

• Dialects

• Language Barriers

Today, _____ is the leading Lingua Franca…

• Spanish

• Mandrin

• Russian

• English

Symbols that represent words, or meaningful parts of words…

• Dialects

• Logograms

• Grammar

• Isogloss