Chapter+5

Ch. 5 – Language Creole || Language group || Official language || Dialect || Lingua franca || Pidgin || Indo European languages || Linguistic diversity || Protolanguage || Isogloss || Monolingual || Toponymy || Language family || Multilingual || ||


 * 1) What is a language?
 * 2) How did the English language develop and spread? (Invaders, colonies)
 * 3) Why do people who speak the same language have different dialects (USA v. England, North v. South)
 * 4) Why do language families have different language branches (Indo-European: Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic)
 * 5) What is a romantic language? Where have they developed and spread?
 * 6) What is the difference between languages used by the populace and languages used by the elite? (Vulgar Latin)
 * 7) Why do some languages use ideograms and some use traditional letter systems?
 * 8) Why is it so difficult to trace the origin and spread of African languages?
 * 9) Folk language preservation (Hebrew, Celtic)
 * 10) Why do some states choose to have an official language, while others exist with a multilingual heritage? (US, Belgium, Switzerland, France)
 * 11) How have some languages "avoided" diffusion? (Basque, Icelandic)
 * 12) What is a lingua franca?
 * 13) How/Why has English become a lingua franca for the world?
 * 14) Mixing of languages (Franglais, spanglish)