LING 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Albanians In The Republic Of Macedonia, Romance Languages, Mutual Intelligibility
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Every language is a dialect, but not every dialect is a language. Ways to classify languages: genetic relationships, geography, typography. How to show languages are in the same family: cognates, comparing sounds/grammatical features. *cognates cannot be found among both genetically related & unrelated languages* False cognates related (i. e. computer = computah in japanese) Language areas regions in which languages share common features regardless of whether they are genetically related or not i. e. the balkans: 8 major languages. How to identify a language area: locate a region with several languages (related and not, find similar linguistic features in area, compare features to what you would expect from their language family. Suffix something added to the end of the word to change the meaning. Article an element of a sentence used with a noun in order to indicate the type of reference. Indefinite article (a/an): noun specific, but one of many. Definite article (the): individuates the noun noun is specific.
