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Language Families
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Why is English related to Other Languages?
English = Indo-European language family
A language family- a collection of langs related thru a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history.
Indo-European is the language family with the most speakers (~3 bil).
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Indo-European Branches
W/in lang families are language branches A subfamily/language branch- a collection of
langs related thru a common ancestor that existed thousands of years ago. differences are not as extensive/old as with lang.
families archaeological evidence can confirm that the
branches derived from the same family
Indo-European is divided into 8 branches: Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Albanian, Celtic, and Armenian
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Germanic Branch
English = Germanic Language Branch West Germanic Group
A language group is a collection of langs w/in a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past, & display relatively few differences in grammar and vocab
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West Germanic Group
Includes the languages of German & English, Afrikaans, and Dutch High Sub-Group:
German is spoken mainly in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Low Sub-Group: English is spoken on every continent (key places: Great
Britain, United States, Canada, India, Japan, and Australia)
Dutch in the Netherlands, Flemish in Belgium Afrikaans in South Africa & Namibia (like Dutch)
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North Germanic Group
Sometimes called Nordic North Germanic
languages of Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Danish Derived from Old Norse
English word Icelandic wordSpoken comparison
apple epli listen (help·info)
book bók listen (help·info)
high/hair hár listen (help·info)
house hús listen (help·info)
mother móðir listen (help·info)
night nótt listen (help·info)
stone steinn listen (help·info)
that það listen (help·info)
word orð
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Romance Branch
The Romance Branch evolved from the Latin lang. spoken by Romans 2,000 years ago
The four most common Romance languages are Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and ItalianFrench, and ItalianFrench and Spanish are two of the six
official UN languages
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Romance Branch
RomanianRomanian in Romania and MoldovaOnly one spatially separated
Others include RomanshRomansh (one of Switzerland’s 4 official languages), and CatalanCatalan (spoken in Spain, and the official language of Andorra)4 more in Europe
Haiti: French Creole is ex. of Rom. language spoken outside Eur.
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Creole
creolized language = mix of a colonial language and an indigenous langForms when a colonized grp adopts the
lang of the dominant grp, but makes some Δs (usually vocab or grammar from native lang)
• Begins as pidgin lang once a gen. is raised w/ it as native = creolized
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History of the Romance Languages
Latin was spread by the soldiers of the Roman EmpireWhen they conquered a group of people,
they taught them LatinThe ppl spoke a different form of Latin
called Vulgar Latin, or Latin of the People.Ex: The Latin word for horse is equus, but the
Vulgar Latin word for horse was caballus. Italian: cavallor, Spanish: caballo, Portuguese: cavalo, and French: cheval
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Spanish and Portuguese
Both of these langs are impt around the world due to Spanish and Portuguese imperialismSpanish = official language in 18 Latin
American countriesLingua franca of region
Portuguese = official language of Brazil
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Balto-Slavic Branch
Roots are more AsianDue to isolation of diff grps when they
arrived in E. Europe, diff langs emergedEast*, West, South Slavic and Baltic
GROUPLanguages include: UkrainianUkrainian, , RussianRussian,
Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, and the Baltic langs
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Balto-Slavic Branch
Russian is most widely spoken lang, and is spoken by 80% of the RussiansRussian is one of the 6 official languages of
the UNRussification post-WWII
Ukrainian and Belarusian next in # for East Slavic.
The Eastern Baltic languages include Latvian and Lithuanian.
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Balto-Slavic Branch
Main W Slavic langs are Polish (Poland), Czech and Slovak (former Czechoslovakia) Speakers of Czech and Slovak can understand
each other
S Slavic- Slovene in Slovenia, Macedonian in Macedonia, and Serbo-Croatian is spoken by rest of Yugo. w/ conflicts, similarities are NOT being preserved Montenegrans & Serbs use Cyrillic alphabet
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Indo-Iranian Branch
The Indo-Iranian branch has the most speakers.
It has over 100 langs w/ over 1 billion native speakers
The branch includes the languages of Persian (Farsi), Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi
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The Indic (eastern) Group
1/3 of Indians use HindiHindiSpoken many different ways, but there is 1
common written form of the language called Devanagari
India’s constitution recognizes 18 official languages4 diff lang. families present
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The Indic (Eastern) Group
Pakistan’s principal language is Urdu, and the written form is Arabic alphabet
Bangladesh’s main language is Bengali
English not official. Only 1% speak itBut often common language,
de facto lang.
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The Iranian (Western) Group
Indo-Iranian languages are spoken in Iran and neighboring countriesPersian, or Farsi, is main lang in Iran.Other languages include Kurdish and Pashto
(Pathan/Pashtun)
All of these are written w/ Arabic alphabet.
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Other Languages
Greek, Albanian, Celtic, and Armenian are in the Indo-European family, but stand on their own
Greek: 12 million native speakers. Armenian: 6 million native speakers. Albanian: 7.3 million native speakers Celtic: in UK (some France), 1.4 million
Ex: S/I Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish
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Gimbutas: war
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Renfrew: agriculture
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Now get out paper for notes on other delightful things
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Language Diversity
How many languages exist in the world?
6,909(according to Ethnologue -
www.ethnologue.com)
10spoken by at least 100 million people
6,500spoken by fewer than 1 million people each!
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New York tweets, by language
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Catalogue containing stats for almost 7,000 languagesEach year # of languages changes as some
die Extinct language: no longer spoken or
read by anyone516 nearly extinctGothic was last of East Germanic
EBLUL created to preserve 60 minority lanugages of EU
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Extinct language that was revivedUsed only for Jewish ceremonies after 300
BCE Really dead, not extinct?
Aramaic replaced by Arabic 1948- estab. of Israel, Hebrew became
official language Had to create new words for modern
items (Eliezer Ben-Yehuda)
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A street in Jerusalem was re-named New York after Sept. 11, 2001. The street name is shown in Hebrew, Arabic, and English
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Major language prior to Germanic invasion of British IslesSpoken in Northern Europe and Italy as well
Gaelic (Goidelic) Irish vs. Scottish
Brythonic (Britannic, Cymric)Wales (Welsh), Brittany (Breton), Cornwall
(Cornish)
Celts lost battles and rights to other languages
Forced to learn English to get jobs
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What has been done in Wales to increase number of Welsh speakers?Welsh Lang. Society, Britain’s Education
Act: taught in schools, BBC channel What has been done in Ireland to
increase number of Gaelic speakers?Rock groups, TV station, road signs
Cornish went extinct in 1777 what about now?Revival began in 1920s, taught in schoolBattle of spellings
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Road signs in Ireland are written in both English and Gaelic (Goidelic).
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Romance vs GermanicBelgium: Walloons (French) vs Flemings
(Flemish/Dutch)Estab. 2 official regions (Flanders &
Wallonia)Brussels is bilingual
Switzerland: German, French, Italian, RomanshPeaceful b/c of decentralized govn’t
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Fig. 5-16: There has been much tension in Belgium between Flemings, who live in the north and speak Flemish, a Dutch dialect, and Walloons, who live in the south and speak French.
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The name of the bookstore is printed in both French (top) and Flemish (bottom).
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Fig. 5-17: Switzerland remains peaceful with four official languages and a decentralized government structure.
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Isolated Language: unrelated to any other, most often not part of a family Indo-European not only had common ancestor,
but spread thru intense interaxn with conquests
Isolated results from inverse relation to interaxn
Basque- last of isolated in Europe Northern Spain, SW France Which
mountains? Icelandic-
Is related to North Germanic (Norwegian) Norwegian changed, not Icelandic
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English- language of international communication
Pidgin language: result of two languages (one lingua franca) and simplifying it Not a native language, just in addition
Main ones: English, Swahili, Hindustani(?), Indonesian,
Russian, Arabic, Spanish
English often mandatory to learn as 2nd language
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http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~ronald/230/creoles.htm
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Fig. 5-1.1: English is still the largest language on the internet, but there has been rapid growth in many others, especially Chinese.
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Fig 5-1.2: English and English-speaking countries still dominate e-commerce, but other languages are growing rapidly.
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Franglais French Academy promotes replacing English
words since 1635 1994- banning franglais illegal Where is the preservation of French most
severe? Quebec
Spanglish (Cubonics) Invents new words, modifies spelling, using
both in one phrase Denglish
Institute for German Language protests use of Denglish
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Fig. 5-18: Although Canada is bilingual, French speakers are concentrated in the province of Quebec, where 80% of the population speaks French.
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What well-known Indo-European language is now extinct?Gothic
What group did it belong to?East Germanic
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What Afro-Asiatic language was once deemed extinct/dead and is now revived?Hebrew
What year was Israel created?1948
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What Indo-European branch has been endangered since the British Isles were first invaded?Celtic
Name 3 Celtic languages Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton,
Cornish How were Celts treated in Irish schools
for speaking Celtic languages?Tally Sticks
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What country is almost split evenly between speakers of two language branches? Belgium
What are the names of people and what language do they speak? Flemings Flemish (Dutch, Germanic) Walloons French (Romance)
What country has 4 official languages? Switzerland
What are they? French, German, Italian, Romansh
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What group created a dialect in order to communicate in code?African American slaves
Many of these dialectical differences turned into what English dialect?Ebonics
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What are the two theories of the origin of the Indo-European language family?Kurgan: War, cattle herders from steppes of
Russia/Kazakhstan GimbutasAnatolian: diffusion of agriculture
Renfrew Most spoken language?
Mandarin Largest language families?
Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan
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Largest language family in Sub-Saharan Africa?Niger-Congo
Largest language family in North Africa?Afro-Asiatic
Term for division lines between “coke”, “pop”, and “soda” Isogloss
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A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago Language branch
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocab. Language group
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history. Language family
A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocab, spelling, and pronunciation. Dialect