Language Presentation 2013
- 2. 7000-8000 languages today 165 languages spoken in the US Africa and New Guinea each have about 1000 different languages spoken Majority of world’s languages are unwritten and many are becoming extinct (esp Australia and Americas)
- 3. Family a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history 16 major/200 minor English is part of Indo European family 4000 years old
- 4. Branch collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago IE…8 English belongs to the Germanic branch
- 6. Groups a collection of languages within a branch that share a common and relatively recent origin English is part of the West Germanic group and the Low Germanic Sub Group
- 7. Proto Indo European 5000-9000 ya Nostratic 14,000 ya Mother Tongue 200,000 ya
- 8. Most widely spoken language in the world Official language in 52 countries 2,000,000 words…615,000 non technical Germany has 185,000 non technical words typical college graduate knows 20,000-30,000 words
- 9. Dialect A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, syntax, cadence, and pronunciation British, American, Canadian
- 10. Divergence (language tree) Convergence Replacement Pidgin Simplified language A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages Lingua Franca Language of trade A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages Creole a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of those being dominated