Language and Culture

Language language, Indo-European family, Sino-

Tibetan family, Language groups, Roman Languages, Dialects, Isoglosses, Pidgin, Creole, Lingua franca, Official

Languages, Polyglot, Language Extinction, Acculturation, Cultural

Extinction. Literacy.

Created by Cristhian A. Robles BSED-3F

February , 2015

Language

• Is one of the oldest, most geographically diverse and most complex cultural traits on earth. In the prehistoric past, there were probably at least 10,000 languages spoken throughout the world. Currently, about 5,000 to 7,000 languages remain.

Language Map

Indo-European family

• About 50% of the world’s people speak languages belonging to the Indo- European family. Languages from this family are spoken on all continents but are dominant in Europe, Russia, North and South America, Australia, and parts of southwestern Asia and India.

• This language family includes the Germanic and Romance languages, as well as Slavic, Indic, Celtic, and Iranic.

Sino- Tibetan family

• Of the world’s people 20% speak languages from the Sino-Tibetan family. This languages area spreads through most of Southeast Asia and China and is comprised of Chinese ( which has the world’s most speakers), Burmese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Korean.

• The final 30% of the world’s populations speak languages from the Afro-Asiatic, Niger-Congo, Altaic, or Austronesian language families.

Language groups

• A language group is a set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics. Spanish and Italian, for example are both part of the Romance languages they are both derived from Latin, they have many related words and they contain similar grammatical structures.

Dialects

• Dialects are geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary somewhat from the parent form.

Isoglosses• Geographical

boundary lines where different linguistic features meet are called Isoglosses.

Is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that

do not have a language in common

Has low prestige with respect to

other languages

Allow people to communicate with each

other without having any similarities in

language and does not have any rules

May be built from words, sounds, or body

language from multiple other languages and

cultures

Creole

• Interesting Creole languages have frequently developed in colonial settings where the linguistic traditions of the indigenous peoples and colonizers have blended.

Lingua franca • When people who speak different languages need to communicate quickly and efficiently, a lingua franca frequently results. A lingua franca is an extremely simple language that combines aspects of two or more complex languages.

Official Language

• An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction. Typically a country's official language refers to the language used within government (e.g., courts, parliament, administration).

Polyglot• speaking or writing

several languages : MULTILINGUAL

• composed of numerous linguistic groups : containing matter in several languages <a polyglot sign>

Language Extinction• Language

extinction occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people.

Acculturation

• Acculturation refers to the adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.

Cultural Extinction • In which an entire

culture was obliterated by war, disease, acculturation, or a combination of the three.

Literacy

• Another important issue having to do with the geography of language was literacy or the ability to read and write.

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