GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Indo-European Languages, Germanic Languages

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Introduction: languages spoken by canadians/hamiltonians (first learned to speak) Quebec"s language (sign) laws - distinct culture and way of life, in order to preserve it, they institute a bunch of laws (business signs must predominantly in french) How many languages: as many as 7000 languages existed prior to the period of european colonization, today, less than 6000 ie. north america and africa (colonization) Is loss of language a positive or negative thing: positive: improved global communications, negative: loss of culture akin to declining biodiversity. Classification and regionalization: language family (tree): a group of closely related languages that likely share a common (and ancient) origin. Indie-european and sino-tibetan: language branch: a subset of a language family, and with a more recent origin (ie. past several thousand years) Indie-european: romance languages (eg. french spanish italian, etc, germanic languages (english, german, dutch, etc, 40%, 18%

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