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What sets humans apart from all other species?
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• LANGUAGE – a set of sounds,
combinations of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication.
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• What does language allow us to do that other species cannot? – Communicate
– Reason
– Create CULTURE
– Language is the foundation of culture
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TOP TEN LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD
Language Speakers in Millions
Chinese 1213
Spanish 329
English 328
Arabic 221
Hindi 182
Bengali 181
Portuguese 178
Russian 144
Japanese 122
German 90.3
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The Language Tree
• 19 Language Families • Each Family has its own
branches • Each branch has its
own groups • Each group has its own
language • Each language has its
own dialects
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• Dialects
A regional variety of a language distinguished by
pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary.
• Languages
• Language Group
Several individual languages within a language branch
– share a common origin in recent past
– few differences in grammar and vocabulary
• Language Branches
A group of languages that share a common origin but have
evolved into different languages
• Language Family
A collection of individual languages with a common ancestor
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• Dialects
A regional variety of a language distinguished by
pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary.
• Languages
• Language Group
Several individual languages within a language branch
– share a common origin in recent past
– few differences in grammar and vocabulary
• Language Branches
A group of languages that share a common origin but have
evolved into different languages
• Language Family
A collection of individual languages with a common ancestor
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• Dialects
A regional variety of a language distinguished by
pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary.
• Languages
• Language Group
Several individual languages within a language branch
– share a common origin in recent past
– few differences in grammar and vocabulary
• Language Branches
A group of languages that share a common origin but have
evolved into different languages
• Language Family
A collection of individual languages with a common ancestor
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• Dialects
A regional variety of a language distinguished by
pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary.
• Languages
• Language Group
Several individual languages within a language branch
– share a common origin in recent past
– few differences in grammar and vocabulary
• Language Branches
A group of languages that share a common origin but have
evolved into different languages
• Language Family
A collection of individual languages with a common ancestor
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• Dialects
A regional variety of a language distinguished by
pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary.
• Languages
• Language Group
Several individual languages within a language branch
– share a common origin in recent past
– few differences in grammar and vocabulary
• Language Branches
A group of languages that share a common origin but have
evolved into different languages
• Language Family
A collection of individual languages with a common ancestor
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• Accent: A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language. Usually associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class (e.g. they have a strong southern accent). Refers only to the way words are pronounced.
• Dialect: has its own grammar, vocabulary, syntax, and common expressions as well as pronunciation rules that make it unique from other dialects of the same language.
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• Isogloss : A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs
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• Dialect Chain: A set of contiguous dialects in which the dialects nearest each other at any place are most closely related.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/07/10/video-how-do-you-pronounce-water/
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Language Diffusion
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• Proto-Tongue – Language developed nearly 2.5 million years ago
– All original speakers communicated in the proto-tongue or original language
– As speakers diffused through migration, language divergence occurred and new languages and dialects spawned from the proto-language
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• Language Divergence: Occurs when speakers of the same language scatter and develop variations of that original language to meet their needs in new surroundings
• As human groups came into contact with new concepts they created new words to describe them.
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• Language convergence : When peoples with different languages have consistent spatial interaction and their languages collapse into one.
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• Language Shift: When speakers come into contact with other languages, a blending of the two languages can occur
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• Language Replacement: Occurs when invaders replace the language of those places they conquer.
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• Reverse Deconstruction: Process to trace the path of a languages diffusion.
Tracks sound shifts and the hardening of consonants backward to reveal an “original” language. – Can deduce the vocabulary of an extinct language.
– Can recreate ancient languages (deep reconstruction)
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• Sound Shifts: Slight change in a word across languages over time. Used to find linkages among languages.
eg. Milk = lacte in Latin latta in Italian leche in Spanish lait in French
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• Nostratic Language: Believed to be the ancestral language of PIE as well as the Kartvelian, Uralic-Altaic, Afro-Asiatic and Dravidian language families.
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• Mutual Intelligibility: Means two people can understand each other when speaking.
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• Standard Language: a language that is published, widely distributed, and purposefully taught.
Government usually plays a big role in standardizing a language.
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ARABIC DIALECTS Speakers in Millions
Algerian 22.4
Egyptian 54
Gulf (Iraq) 3.6
Hijazi (Saudia Arabia) 6.0
Mesopotamian (Iraq) 15.1
Moraccan 21
Najdi (Saudia Arabia) 10
North Levantine (Syria) 14.4
North Mesopatamian (Iraq) 6.3
Saidi (Egypt) 19.0
Sanaan (Yemen) 7.6
South Levantine (Jordan) 6.2
Sudanese 16.8
Taizzi-Adeni (Yemen) 7.1
Tunisian 9.4
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• The Indo-European Family
• The single largest language family – 150 languages
– Three billion speakers.
– Languages include • Hindi and Urdu (400 million)
• Bengali (200 million)
• Spanish (300 million)
• Portuguese (200 million)
• French (100 million)
• German (100 million)
• Russian (300 million)
• English (400 million) in Europe and the Americas.
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Diffusion of Proto-Indo-European
• Two Major Theories – Conquest
– Agricultural
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1. Conquest Theory
• Early speakers of PIE (proto-indo-european) spread from east to west on horseback
• Overpowered earlier inhabitants through warfare and technology
• Sound shifts show long period of divergence moving slowly west
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Hearth was Kurgan Empire (modern day Ukraine)
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2. Agricultural Theory • PIE diffused westward with the diffusion of
agriculture / farming
• Farming innovation spread – replaces hunting and gathering
• Farmers complete spread across Europe in about 1500 years
• Some non-farmers hold out and their languages do not change – example Euskera in the Basque region of Spain.
• Agricultural theory also known as Renfrew Hypothesis
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Hearth was Anatolia Region (modern day Turkey)
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• Three Major Branches of Language in Europe
1. Romance Languages – French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and
Portuguese
– Areas controlled by Roman Empire
– Local Languages mixed with Latin
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2. Slavic Languages – Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian,
Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian
– Developed as Slavic people migrated into present day Ukraine
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3. Germanic Languages – English, German, Danish, Norwegian and
Swedish
– Expansion of peoples out of Northern Europe
– Particularly Germanic tribes moving into areas dominated by Rome
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HISTORY OF ENGLISH in 10 minutes
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3r9bOkYW9s
Assignment - A 60 second Adventure in the History of English
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• Language Extinction: When a language is no longer used.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiW59UUivc0
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8498534.stm
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• Language Extinction Case Study – Choose a language currently on the brink of
extinction.
– Research the language and respond to the following prompts
• Where is the language spoken
• How many currently speak the language
• Provide a brief history of the language (think 60 second history of English).
• Identify 3 factors leading to the languages extinction.
• One page write up in notebook.
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• Rome leaves Britannica
• Anglos move in from Northern Germany (Angloland –England) bringing native language to the Island
• Christian Church established – continues mixing of Latin and Anglo/English
• Vikings invade – mix some vik language in
• Normans (French) Invade – French becomes language of power, English language of the poor and powerless
• 100 year war – French out – English the language of power
• English Empire – Colonize and spread English around world – mixing thousands of languages with English
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• Over centuries English is established as a
dominant language in – Literature (Shakespeare)
– Science
– Religion (King James Bible)
– Dictionaries (standardized which makes spread easier)
– Economics (Capitalism)
– Internet
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• The Afro-Asiatic Family – 240 languages
– 250 million speakers.
– Includes ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, and Aramaic, as well as the great Nigerian language Hausa.
– The many dialects of Arabic alone are spoken by as many as 200 million people.
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• The Dravidian Family
• These are the "old" languages of India
• 150 million speakers.
• Best known are Tamil and Telugu.
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• The Sino-Tibetan Family
• Includes 250 languages.
• Mandarin Chinese alone is spoken by one billion people!
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• The Austronesian Family
• Includes 1000 different languages
• Spoken by about 250 million speakers
• Malay and Indonesian (essentially the same language) account for about 140 million.
• Other examples include – Madagascar in Africa
– Tagalog in the Philippines
– Many languages of the Pacific Islands, from Hawaiian in the north Pacific to Maori in New Zealand.
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• The Amerind Family (North America)
• includes nearly 600 languages
• 20 million speakers.
• Some of the best known are – Ojibwa
– Dakota (or Sioux)
– Cherokee
– Hopi
– Nahuatl (or Aztec)
– Mayan languages.
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• The Amerind Family (South America)
• Well known languages include – Quechua (Inca)
– Guarani
– Carib.
– The Andean language sub-family (which includes Quechua) numbers nearly nine million speakers!
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• The Niger-Congo Family
• The largest sub-Saharan African family of languages
• includes some 1,000 languages
• Close to 200 million speakers.
• Includes – Mandinka
– Swahili
– Yoruba
– Zulu
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• Where did language first evolve?
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0phq7litTc
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• THE QUESTION:
• At the same time that English is solidifying its role as the world’s premier lingua franca, lesser-used minority languages (such as Welsh, Basque, and Inuktitut) are undergoing revival.
• Discuss three distinct factors promoting the revival of minority languages in the face of globalization.
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TOP TEN LANGUAGES SPOKEN AT HOME IN THE UNITED STATES BY NON-ENGLISH SPEAKERS
Language Percent
Spanish 12.2
Chinese 0.9
Tagalog 0.5
French 0.5
Vietnamese 0.4
German 0.4
Korean 0.4
Russian 0.3
Arabic 0.3
Italian 0.3
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ODD ONE OUT
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CHINESE DIALECTS Speakers in Millions
Gan 20.6
Hakka 30
Huizhou 4.6
Jinyu 45
Mandarin 845
Min Bei 10.3
Min Dong 9.1
Min Nan 47.3
Min Zhong 3.1
Wu 77.2
Xiang 36
Yue 55.5
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• The Afro-Asiatic Family
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• The Dravidian Family
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• The Sino-Tibetan Family
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• The Austronesian Family
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• The Amerind Family (North America)
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• The Amerind Family (South America)
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• The Niger-Congo Family
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Nigerian Creole
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8GRpu6c71I
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Lingua Franca
• A common language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of commerce and trade.
– English is considered the lingua franca of
academics
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• Pidgins: When people who speak two or more languages are in contact and they combine parts of their language in a simplified structure and vocabulary – Is a second language for everyone who uses it
– Often used in business or work supervision
– Very simplified – think 2 year old speech
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• Creole: Language that evolves when a pidgin becomes the first language of a group of speakers. – May lose their mother tongue from disuse
– More complex grammatical structure and enhanced vocabulary
– Think 4-5 year old speech
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• Us two bin get hard time raising dog
• The two of us had a hard time raising dogs
• John them stay cockroach the kaukua
• John and his friends are stealing the food
• More better I bin go Honolulu for buy om
• It would have been better if I’d gone to Honolulu to buy it
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• Mo pe aste sa banan
• I am buying the banana
• French based Seychelles Creole
• A waka go a wosu
• He walked home
• English based Cape York Creole
• Ja fruher wir blieben
• Yes, at first we remained
• German based Papua New Guinea Pidgin
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• Toponym: Place names
• Toponymy: The place names of a region or the study of place names.
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• Place names often consist of two parts a generic classifying part - River
a specific modifying, or particular part - Red
In English the specific usually comes first
Red River
Two Oregon Examples
In French the generic usually comes first
River Rouge
Two examples - anywhere
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Toponyms
• Naming things is one of the primary purposes of language
• Study of toponyms can give you insight into immigration patterns, colonial influence, religion, language and cultural diffusion. – “burg” = city – German roots
– Hamburg – City in Germany
– Pittsburgh – City in United States
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• Postcolonial Toponyms
• After colonies became independent countries they often changed place names.
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• Post Revolution Toponyms: Place names changed after a revolution.
– St Petersburg was changed to Leningrad after the
Russian Revolution and has now been changed back after the fall of communism
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• Memorial Toponyms: Change in place name to memorialize an important person or event.
• 3 Examples?
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Monolingual State a country in which only one language is spoken
Japan, Iceland, Denmark Multilingual State a country in which more than one language is in use India, Peru, United States
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• Official Language Language adopted by the government. Usually selected by elite and becomes the language of courts and government.
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