GEOG 1280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6 : Isogloss, Mutual Intelligibility, Language Convergence
30 Oct 2017
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172-202: what are languages, and what role do languages play in cultures, language is a fundamental element of local and national culture. Can be broken into sub-families, where the commonalities are more definite and their origin is more recent. Can be done by examining particular words: a sound shift is a slight change in a word across languages within a subfamily or through a language family from the present backward toward its origin, ex. Italian, spanish and french are rooted in latin, connections between words were deduced: proto-indo-european the first major hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral indo-european language, a single proto-indo-european hearth would link modern languages from. Scandinavia to north africa and from north america through parts of asia to. Australia: language had to be reconstructed, locate the hearth, and trace routes of diffusion, reconstructing the vocabulary of proto-indo-european and its ancient ancestor, backward reconstruction: to track sound shifts and hardening of consonants (cid:862)(cid:271)a(cid:272)k(cid:449)ard(cid:863) to(cid:449)ard the origi(cid:374)al la(cid:374)guage.
