ANTH 2430 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes -
12 Oct 2018
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1/18/17 - languages of the world: an introduction. Brooks 202 samuel. j. beer@virginia. edu - include anth 2430 in subject. A dialect is a language with an army . Main standard for identifying languages; however, this doesn"t always work (i. e. a series/chain of villages, romance languages, Members of a dialect continuum are all very closely related--they all belong to the same language family. Even languages spoken on opposite ends of the continuum are very similar. Are each of the varieties associated with political control. Main database to use for citations in this class. Ethnologue errs on the side of calling two similar varieties separate languages. Read evans xx-xxii (note on the presentation of linguistic material) Skim the leipzig glossing conventions: we will refer back to these frequently. This is a hard question to answer. Hard to distinguish between dialects and languages. Members of a dialect continuum are all very closely related - they all belong to the same language family.
