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English

Front

Which language is considered to be a current global lingua franca?

Back

Mandarin Chinese

Front

Which language has more native speakers than any other?

Back

S instead of z, omits the word have

Front

List two characteristics of Chicano English.

Back

The Nazis stopped it, there are no native speakers

Front

Why did Esperanto fail to become a truly universal language?

Back

A pidgin language has no native speakers

Front

What is the difference between a pidgin language and a creole language?

Back

Kurgen theory of Indo-European Language

Front

nomads who were herders and they had horses that they used to conquer different areas

Back

In many Native American regions where the people have been displaced

Front

In which regions are languages becoming endangered and extinct very quickly?

Back

Dropping a g at the end of words, loss of an l sound, dropping proper tense of a word,

Front

List two characteristics of African American English.

Back

They were removed from the lands by the government, the government implemented policies about their language, they have the Yuchi Language Project which teaches the language to children

Front

What were some of the factors that caused the endangerment of the Yuchi language? What are the Yuchi doing to revitalize their language?

Back

mutual intelligibility

Front

Languages that are similar and can be partially understood by speakers of another language because of the similarity

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Anatolian theory of Indo-European Language

Front

herders that were nomadic and grew food, moved away to another area to sell food

Back

they are considered to be the normal way to speak a language

Front

Why are standard languages considered to be elitist?

Back

176

Front

how many languages are spoken in the United States?

Back

Indo-European

Front

What language family is English a part of?

Back

languages sound different by region

Front

Everyone speaks with an accent, Why?

Back

Western Germanic

Front

Which language branch does English belong to?

Back

Northern Mandarin

Front

What is the standard language of China?

Back

LDI

Front

The likelihood of 2 different people in the same country having different native languages

Back

toponyms

Front

They are town names, sometimes they can be named after a person, event or geographical feature of an area

Back

Papua New Guinea

Front

Which country has the highest LDI?

Back

Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Afro-Asianic, Austronesian

Front

What are the largest language families by the number of speakers?

Back

3rd

Front

Where does English rank on languages with the most speakers?

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English, its farther spread out than Chinese that is mostly in China

Front

Which language is dominant: Chinese or English? Why?

Back

Business or trade-in a local area

Front

Lingua francas are spoken across wide areas for what purpose?

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