Geography 2.1
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- __ living languages
- 6,809
- __ languages are nearly extinct.
- 400
- language branches
- languages with a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago
- 1/3 of languages are in __. Another third are in ___.
- Asia; Africa
- linga franca
- a language that is the 2nd of two people and used for communication.
- Languages change due to..
- relocation and converting to others.
- The principle languages of business and diplomacy.
- French and English
- Areas where language is endangered:
- 1. Northern Australia 2. Central South America 3. Northwest Pacific Plateau 4.Eastern Siberia 5. Oklahoma Southwest
- __ the world's languages will be gone in 100 years.
- half
- Social morale model:
- Some languages become stigmatized.
- economic development model:
- give up language for economic advantages
- Isogloss
- a boundarry that seperates regions in which different language usages predominate.
- dialect
- a form of a language that is mutually understood but unique.
- Why languages dissapear:
- -colonization/ genocide -purposeful supression of a culture -country unification -economic advancement -aging popullation -social hierarchy -not written down -told that they are inferior/ primitive
- Results of language loss:
- loss of perception of what it is to be human. Loss of history and self-esteem.
- How the government can help support dying languages:
- 1. Increase wealth and give legitimate power to these communities. 2. Education that supports the language (inculcate sense of identity/future) 3. Write languages down 4. Provide access to electronic media to broadcast.
- language family
- a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family.