GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Inuit Languages, Romance Languages, Germanic Languages
14 Oct 2016
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Language: language and languages, classification and regionalization, an example: indo-european languages, the global dominance of english, dialects & accents. How it"s a imp marker of culture. Localized variations of language accents, jargon, 65% of people can speak more than one language. This is not the language people can speak it"s their mother tongue. Most children first learn one language from their parents. The left side of the box is canada as a whole. The other languages are not similar to the most spoken languages in canada. Language: a fundamental way that we distinguish between cultural groups. Language is a cultural variable: learned behaviour. Language is a useful tool to delimit groups and regions. Language and the survival of cultural groups: eg. Language is a fundamental way cultural groups differentiate each other. A cultural variable learned behaviours learn from parents. The way they speak the language culture from one gen to another. Concerned bout the survival of the cultural groups.
