Language tree Flashcards

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Language family

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Collection of languages that have common ancestral language

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English what family

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Indo European

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Language branch

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Common language family related through common ancestral language existing several thousand years ago

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Indo European 8 branches

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Romance
Germanic
Indo iranian 
Baltoslavic 
Albanian
Armenian
Greek
Celtic
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Indo Iranian where

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South Asia

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Romance where

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Southwestern Europe and Latin America

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Germanic where

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North Western Europe and North America

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Balto Slavic

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Eastern Europe

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Info European 4 main branches

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Romance Balto Slavic, Germanic, indo Iranian

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Indo European branches 4 minor

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Albanian, Armenian, Celtic, Greek

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Germanic branch

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Indo European language

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Why is english a Germanic language

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It was the language spoken by Germanic tribes that invaded England 1500 years ago

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Language group

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A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent last and display few differences in grammar and vocabulary.

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English language group

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West Germanic

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English language branch

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Germanic

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Language branch of west Europe: France Spain Italy Portugal

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Romance

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Language branch of north west Europe: Germany, United Kingdom,Belgium,Netherlands, Austria Norway Sweden

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Language branch of west Europe

Russia Poland Ukraine Belarus

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Language branch Armenia

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Language branch of south west Europe

Iran Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Tajikistan
Sri Lanka

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Finland indoeuropean language ?

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Coasts of north I England France Iceland

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Albania language branch

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Greece language branch

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Branch in indo European family with most speakers
Indo Iranian
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Indic group of the indo Iranian language branch
Eastern group Most widely used language in India Hindi
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Urdu
Spoken like hindi | Written with Arabic language
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Iranian group of indo inranian language groups
Western Iran...
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Balto slovic
Can be separated into east and west south and Baltic
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Balto Slavic most widely used slovic languages
Eastern primarily Russian
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Most spoken west slovic language
Polish Flowed by Czech and Slovak
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Most important south Slovak language
Serbo Croatian
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Romance branch evolved from
Latin language spoken by Romans 2000 years ago
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4 most widely used contemporary romance languages 5th 2 other official languages
Spanish Portuguese French Italian 5 th = Romanian of Romania and moldova 2 other official languages= Romansh and Catalan
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Official languages of the United Nations 6
Russian French Spanish
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Vulgar Latin
Not th standard literary form but a spoken form
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Creole | Creolized language
Language that results from the mixing of colonizer a language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated Simplifying grammar, adding words
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Nomadic warrior thesis
Hypothesis that the first proto indo European speakers were the kurgans whose homeland were on the border of present day Russia and Kazakhstan The kurgans were nomadic herders. The first to domesticate horses and cattle. They migrated in search of grassland for their animals and moved west through Europe, Siberia, Iran and South Asia. The kurgans used horses to conquer Europe and South Asia
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Marija Gimbutas
Nomadic warrior thesis
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Colon renfrew
Sedentary farmer thesis
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Sedentary farmer thesis
First speakers of proto indo European lived before kurgans in turkey. They diffused west to Greece to Italy Sicily Corsica and the Mediterranean coast. Then north to France and British isles. Agricultural practice triumphed because they could grow food.