GEOG 1001 Chapter : GEOG 1001 OUTLINE Exam 2
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10,000 ft high: central uplands, high lands. Italy fertility day (sparks cristicism: linguistic geography, major language regions, indo-european (romance, germanic, romance, french, spanish, italian, portuguese, romanian, and catalan, mainly in southern europe, 160,000,000 speakers, spread through political influence and conquest (the spreading of the. 190,000,000 speakers: found in more easterly and northerly areas, poland, belarus, ukraine, russia, the most fractured groups of languages in europe. 200 ad began growing: grew because of religion, closely parallels with where the eastern orthodox church is located, celtic. 1. 5 million speakers: english squeezed these languages out, hellenic, greece, stable ancient language, but limited to strict territory. 10 million in europe: uralic, finish and estonian. 6 million speakers: basque, northern spain (small area) 700,000 speakers: romany, the gypsy"s, much of europe (mainly southern), moving around. 500,000 speakers: albanian, albania, very distinct national languages. 5 million speakers: baltic, lithuania and latvia, very small countries.
