World Languages

Language

A system of communication through speech

Literary tradition

Written communication

Official language

A language used for official documents

Ex. Money, road signs, public objects

Language families

Collection of languages through a common ancestral language

Language branches

Collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language.

Differences aren’t as significant

Language groups

Collection of languages within a branch that share common origin.

Similar vocab and grammar

Language tree greatest-smallest

Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Atlantic-Congo(Niger-Congo), Afro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian

How many language’s in the world

7,000+

Taxonomy of languages

Family: Indo-European branch- Germanic group- west Germanic language- English dialect- American

Indo-European

Dominate language families are Europe, South Asia, North America, and Latin America

Sino-Tibetan

China and Southeast Asia

Largest language

Mandarin

Ideogram

Symbols mean words

Where are other Asian languages

East and Southeast Asia

Austronesian

6% Indonesian

Austria-Asiatic

Roman alphabet

2 largest language families

Afro-Asiatic(Arabic)and Altaic(Turkish)

Dialect

A language fit in a specific region or social group

Why is English related to other languages?

Distribution Of Indo European branches

Germanic branch

North western Europe and North America

Indo Iranian branch

South Asia

Baltic-Slavic branch

Eastern Europe

Romance branch

Southwestern Europe, Latin America

Boundaries

Where regional words are used and can be mapped

Lexicon

Vocab

Dialect examples

American and British English

Isolated languages

One unrelated language not attached to any language family

Isolated language examples

Basque in Europe Icelandic in Iceland

Extinct language

A language no longer spoken or read and daily activities by anyone on earth

Lingua Franca

A language of international communication

English is which branch

Germanic