Una Sabljaković, Amela Silajdžić, Nejra Piljug

FAMILY OF LANGUAGES

Group of languages that are related to one

another in term of orgin

Contains several subdivisons (branches)

Romance,

Germanic,

Baltic,

Slavic,

Albanian,

Celtic,

Armenian

Hellenic (Greek)

2.URALIC:Hungarian,

Finnish,

Estonian

3.Turkic

4.Mongolic

1.INDO-EUROPEAN:

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Germanic language

family

350 million native

speakers

Most commonly-learned

second language

Alphabet - 26 Roman

letters

GRAMMAR

Doesn’t have a large

number of inflections

ex.:

ask,asks,asked,asking

Does have a large

number of possible

tenses (verb forms)

VOCABULARY

The largest vocabulary

of any language

One million words

GERMAN

ALPHABETThe alphabet contains the same

26 letters (+ä, ö, ü, and ß)

PHONOLOGYThe /th/ sound doesn’t exist

GRAMMARDoesn’t have a continuous tense

form (I eat dinner)

VOCABULARY

Share many cognates

DUTCH

ALPHABETSame Latin alphabet as English

PHONOLOGYSimilar

English words end with voiced

consonants, doesn’t exist in Dutch

(rub-rup, bird-birt) GRAMMAR

Similar tenses

Doesn’t use the auxiliary doin questions or negatives

(Where you come from? / I

drink not beer)

VOCABULARY

Have a great number of cognates,

basic Germanic vocabulary and

shared Romance vocabulary

ENGLISH

House

Drink

Two

Good

Forget

Out

Buy

DUTCH

Huis

Drinken

Twee

Goed

Vergeten

Uit

Kopen

SIMILAR VOCABULARY

GERMAN

Haus

Trinken

Zwei

Gut

Vergessen

Aus

Kaufen

SIMILAR USES OF WORDS

ENGLISH

Drink

Drank

Drunk

Come

Came

Come

DUTCH

Drinken

Drank

Gedronken

Komen

Kwam

Gekomen

Trinken

Trank

Getrunken

Kommen

Kam

Gekommen

GERMAN