[LING 1020] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (42 pages long)
29 Nov 2016
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Lecture 2: language & dialect, & language family: a language is a dialect with an army and a navy max weinreich. Language = official because of political or geographical boundaries: languages = official when . Serbia & croatian = dialects of the same language. Mutually intelligible: there are about 7,100 known living languages. Sources range from 3,000-10,000: gray areas on how to define a language (politically, regionally, etc. , how to classify languages. Linguistic features (linguistic typology: languages born (daughter language) when speakers of a certain language become distributed and geographically divided. Cognates similar words in different languages: words inherited from the mother language by the daughter languages and sound similar across related languages , identified by sound correspondences. 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.
