GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Romance Languages
3 Apr 2018
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A group of closely related languages that likely share a common (and ancient) origin. Like a family tree, how languages are structured. From the same area (hurth area) , then diffused or adopted: most important and oldest families: indo-european (english stemmed from here) & A subset of a language family with more of a recent origin (past several thousand yrs) 45% of people on earth speak from the inso-european. European colonization: helped to move languages to other colonized areas. Isolation & diffusion: sion-tibetan have stayed generally in one area, as well as languages being diffused to na, sa, australia. ** english emerged from a mixture of lunges merging over time, it has diffused from an ancient origin. B) the spatial extent of the language (fewer people speaking english, but more spread out) English is considered an of cial language" in 50 countries around the world. Air travel: some people from korea will speak english over intercom.
