Chapter 5 review 1.What is a literary tradition? 2.What is a dialect?

3. Why do people in different regions of the United States speak English differently?

4. Differentiate between a language branch, family and group.

5. What are the two largest language families? 6. Which group, branch and family does English belong?

7. Who were the Germanic invaders on England? 8. Where did they come from and where did they settle?

9. Explain the reasons for differences in American and British English.

10. What are the most spoken Romance languages? 11. What language did soldiers stationed throughout the Roman Empire speak? Why is this important?

12. What are the 4 most spoken branches of the Indo-European language family? 13. What do they speak in Belgium and Switzerland?

14. Where do they speak Urdu? 15. Who were the Kurgans? 16. Where do they speak Basque and what type of language is it and why?

17. How were Indo-European languages diffused, according to the Anatolian hearth theory?

18. Why is there such a large number of individual languages spoken in Africa and what is the most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africa?

19. Give 2 examples of what needs to be accomplished in order to attempt to preserve or revive a language.

20. Discuss the increasing role of English as the world’s lingua franca.