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5.1 Notes (APHG)

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Languages Ethnologue ? 7,472 languages & dialects, 7,102 ?living? (used on a daily basis on the means of communication) There is a lot of diversity 10 languages natively spoken by at least 100 million people (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Punjabi, Mandarin, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Japanese) 100 languages spoken by 5 million or more people 13 spoken fluently (including as a secondary language) by at least 100 million (10 from above PLUS French, Urdu, German) Literary tradition ? written form of a language Vigorous language ? language without a literary tradition Harder to learn and study Official language ? adopted by law by a gov?t for communication Official means of communication for business, laws, signs, etc. Language is a cultural value

Chapter 5: Key Issue #1 APHG

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Languages Ethnologue ? 7,472 languages & dialects, 7,102 ?living? (used on a daily basis on the means of communication) There is a lot of diversity 10 languages natively spoken by at least 100 million people (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Punjabi, Mandarin, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Japanese) 100 languages spoken by 5 million or more people 13 spoken fluently (including as a secondary language) by at least 100 million (10 from above PLUS French, Urdu, German) Literary tradition ? written form of a language Vigorous language ? language without a literary tradition Harder to learn and study Official language ? adopted by law by a gov?t for communication Official means of communication for business, laws, signs, etc. Language is a cultural value

Latin Derivative Tree

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2010 Diocesan Institute Activities for World Language Classes Lukes Paul VI Catholic High School Derivative Tree Wordlist Due Date _________________ Tree Due Date ____________________ 1. The fate will select ONE of the following LATIN words for you: moveo cedo traho mitto capio teneo lego (lex) ago sto juro (jus) voco (vox) specio/specto fero video sentio facio verto scribo duco venio rego porto pono plecto

Chapter 5 outline

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Languages of Africa
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Languages of Taiwan
Languages of Macau
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Trans-cultural diffusion
English language
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Social Issues
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culture
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Language isolate
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chapter 5

Chapter 5 Origin and Diffusion of English- *English is spoken fluently by one-half billion people, more then any language except Mandarin. *Mandarin is clustered in China, while English has diffused world wide. *English is an official language in 50 countries English Colonies: *Distribution of English is because of migrants from England *English is an official language in almost all of its past colonies *English first diffused west --> went to N. America in 17th century *English beat France in a battle in 18th century--secured English as a principal language in N.America

Rubenstein Ch. 5

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Key Issue 2: Why is English Related to Other Languages? Indo-European Branches Language Family - a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history Language Branch - a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago Indo European is divided into eight branches. Large numbers of people speaks the first four, Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic, and Balto-Slavic. They are clustered in South Asia, southwestern Europe and Latin America, northwestern Europe and North America, and Eastern Europe. English and German are closely related. They are part of a language group West Germanic – they are structurally similar and have many words in common.

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Knewton SAT Knotes: Math SAT STRATEGIES ALGEBRA Translation: ? ?of? means multiply ? ?per? means divide ? ?sum? is result of adding numbers ? ?difference? is result of subtracting numbers ? ?product? is result of multiplying numbers ? ?quotient? is result of dividing numbers Parabolas: For y = ax2 + bx + c ? a determines open up (a > 0) or open down (a < 0) ? c determines y-intercept Transformations: If y = f(x): ? y = f(x) + h shifts graph up for positive h, down for negative h ? y = f(x + h) shifts graph left for positive h, right for negative h ? y = f(ax) narrows graph for a > 1, widens graph for a < 1 ? y = af(x) stretches vertically for a > 1, squishes for a < 1 Inequalities: If you multiply or divide an
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