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Languages
Term | Definition |
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Literary tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken |
Quentin Atkinson | New Zealand biologist – argues that languages originated in Africa because they are more complex in Africa than outside of Africa |
Quechan | most widely used language family in the western hemisphere other than Indo-European - Andes Mountains |
UN official and working languages | Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish |
Franglais | French and English |
Spanglish | Spanish and English |
Denglish | German and English |
Received Pronunciation | standard language of England |
Catalan | language of Andorra |
Balear | dialect spoken in Balearic Islands |
Galician | dialect or different language than Portuguese? |
Switzerland official languages | German, French, Italian, Romansh |
Belgium south | Walloons - French Wallonia |
Belgium north | Flemings - Flemish Flanders |
Basque | Europe's only isolated language Pyrenees Mountains |
Icelandic | not isolated - North Germanic has changed less than any other Germanic |
Welsh | Brythonic Celtic official language in Wales |
Cornish | Brythonic Celtic revived in Cornwall, UK |
Breton | Brythonic Celtic Brittany, France Declining language |
Irish | Goidelic Celtic Ireland |
Scottish Gaelic | Goidelic Celtic Scotland |
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda | revived Hebrew, created over 4,000 new words |
Myaaima | Miami Native American Tribe, revived by Daryl Baldwin |