L2: LANGUAGE VARIATION

7,000 languages

According to Ethnologue, there are ___ language in the world

Austronesian

Most widespread language family

Indo-european

In which language family does european languages belong

Indo-european, germanic, west

English is classified as

Morphemes

How are languages classified

Morpheme

Smallest group of sounds that are significant in a word

Isolating

Only one morpheme per word

Synthetic

Allow a lot of affixation, allows a word to have many morphemes

Agglutinating

Synthetuc language where morphemes are easily organized and seperated

Fusional

The correspondence between grammr info and morpheme are not 1 to 1

Spanish

Example of fusional lang

Polysynthetic

Several words are found in a bigger word but they are not compound words

Tonal language

Where tkne can change the meaning of the word.

Chinese, viet,

Example of tonal langiages

Dialect

A variation of language

Accent

Variation is purely on pronunciation