LING 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Afroasiatic Languages, Halkomelem, Northern Athabaskan Languages
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Ling 101 final exam outline - fall 2014: language vs. family vs. dialect (concepts) Two different dialects are mutual intelligible (can understand each other) A group of languages are in the same family if they share a single common ancestor: prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar. Lays down rules for language usage as prescriptivists think it should be used. Synthesizes rules for language usage from the language that people actually use: goals and principles of the ipa. Ipa set of unambiguous symbols for all speech sounds, in all languages. Principles: 1) use bracket to mark ipa / / 2) use a single symbol (not two letters) for each sound. Goals: provide a set of symbols, to unambiguously represent sounds in a universal way, that works for all languages: language family for english, german, halq"emeylem, chipewyan, akan, Chipewyan: dene-yeniseian family > na-dene family, northern athabaskan branch. Arabic: afro-asiatic family, semitic branch: geographic locations for indo-european, indo-aryan, dravidian,
