Unit III

Language
L1. Know where the major
language families are: Sino- L9. Revival of indigenous
Tibetan, Indo-European, Niger- languages
Congo, Afro-Asiatic & Dravidian a. Welsh
b. Basque
L2. Know where the major c. How do you save them?
languages are spoken: Mandarin
Chinese, English, French, German, L10. Language Isolation and
Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Language Extinction: Reading 7e
Arabic, Hebrew pages 146-147

a. Language Divergence

L3. What are the Trees of b. Language Convergence

Language? c. Language Isolate

d. Language Extinction
L4. The Geography of Language: 

Reading 7b pages 138-139

a. Dialect
 L11. Multi-Lingual Countries or
b. Accent
 Regions

c. Patois
 a. Canada

d. Vernacular
 b. Niger

e. Lingua Franca
 c. Caucuses

f. Pidgin
 d. India

g. Creoles e. Belgium

f. Balkans
L5. Ideogram or Orthography

a. Chinese
 L12. Key Terms

b. Hindi
 a. Isogloss

c. Arabic b. Irredentism

c. Monolingual

L6. What language brings:
 d. Bilingual

a. A sense of place e. Multilingual

f. Official Language

L7. English Diffusion
 g. Literary Tradition

a. The British Empire
 h. Vigorous Language

b. The American Influence
 I. Developing Language
c. The Internet and Flight
L13. The Accents in the US
L8. The European Empires

a. Colonial Age

b. Imperialistic Age