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19 Cards in this Set
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Most universal language
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english
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How many languages before they die off
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70,000 languages
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Language Family
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a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history
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Language Branches
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a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language; that existed several thousand years ago
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Dialect
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a regional variation of a language
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Indo-European language family
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make up 48%, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Bengali and Hindi
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India
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18 official languages
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Sino Tibetan Family
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make up 26%; Chinese (Mandarin)
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Afro-Asiatic Family
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make up 6%; Arabic
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Germanic Branch
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German and English
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Romance Branch
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Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian
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Indo-European Big Four Branches
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Balto-Slavic, Germanic, Indo-Iranian, and Romance
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Two Big Branches in European World
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Germanic and Romance
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One neighbor state
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Portugal
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Multilingual States
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Geographic isolation is a big part of seeing so many languages
Belgium, Switzerland and Nigeria |
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Lingua Franca
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a language of international communication, such as English
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Six Official Languages used by the U.N
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English, French, Spanish, Chinese(Mandarin), Arabic and Russian.
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French speaking countries
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French is the only language, other than English, spoken on all five continents. (35 countries)
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Chinese Characters
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pictograms
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