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22 Cards in this Set
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Guilded
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sarcastic label of the habit of fixing up English with the look of Latin. means to make golden. Became a 'one-upedness' amongst scholars. Written between scholars for themselves, rather than for the general public.
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RP
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received pronunciation. standard britian book english.
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American Indian language family. why it's bad. example
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badly named. a geographical location, not a family,
the languages listed aren't all related, and we are quite different. eskimo-aleut. no pc name. also, they came much ealrier than American indians. |
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Austro-Asiatic
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Tone Languages. Vietnames writing has gon to the Roman alphabet with a lot of dicritics (accent marks).
Others have their own languages mostly monosyllabic lexicon |
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Balkanization
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a lot of different languages in a small location. even if they aren't related, they share common features, and pick up words from another.
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honorific pronouns
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you have to chose the right pronoun based on the status of the person you are talking to
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Australian
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not a language family
2 quite different languages exist. |
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austronesian aka malayo-polynesian
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they have spread 2/3 across the world. the biggest one being Indonesian, Malay
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syllabary
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a series or set of written characters each one of which is used to represent a syllable
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chinese
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not one language. treated as one huge language when you write them down it pretty much is, they use characters.
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Niger-Congo
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lazy label. fall into 3 separate categories.
Nama-Kwe (click lang) Khai-San Banto |
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Afro-asiatic
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cornfiel, russian, hebrew, arabic 'sh'
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basque
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language isolate. spoken on the north shore of where france and spain come together
Reminant of a language (over a much larger area) before latin languages came to push it out. |
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language isolate
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single member families.
examples: basque, ainu in japan, burshaskitt, himilayas |
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proto
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name given to what we have reconstructed as the family language. proto means first.
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indicates recreated, done to words and names that have been reconstructed
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lingua franca
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(or working language, bridge language, vehicular language) is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother tongue, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both mother tongues.
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who introduced Christianity
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Romans
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who did the romans convert?
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celts into christianity from druidism.
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about germans
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had their own alphabet systems and they worshipped the sun and moon and other dieties. Ex Thor. god of thunder.
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ruin in anglo-saxon
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whispering, no records
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Dark Ages
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the leaving of the romans and the coming of the anglo saxons. far less has remained, things remain 'dark' to us.
dark ages go in 597. 597, christianity returns |
