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The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography Chapter 5: Language The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography

Where Are English Language Speakers Distributed? Origin and diffusion of English English is spoken by 328 million as a first language English colonies Origins of English German invasions Norman invasions

English-Speaking Countries Figure 5-2

Invasions of England Figure 5-3

Where Are English Language Speakers Distributed? Dialects of English Dialect = a regional variation of a language Isogloss = a word-usage boundary Standard language = a well-established dialect Dialects In England Differences between British and American English

English Dialects Figure 5-5

Where Are English Language Speakers Distributed? Dialects of English Dialects in the United States Settlement in the eastern United States Current differences in the eastern United States Pronunciation differences

Dialects in the Eastern United States Figure 5-7

Soft Drink Differences Figure 5-8

Why Is English Related to Other Languages? Indo-European branches Language branch = collected of related languages Indo-European = eight branches Four branches have a large number of speakers: Germanic Indo-Iranian Balto-Slavic Romance

Branches of the Indo-European Family Figure 5-9

Linguistic Differences in Europe and India Figure 5-10 Figure 5-11

Romance Branch Figure 5-12

Why Is English Related to Other Languages? Origin and diffusion of Indo-European A “Proto-Indo-European” language? Internal evidence Nomadic warrior theory Sedentary farmer theory

Nomadic Warrior Theory Figure 5-14

Sedentary Farmer Theory Figure 5-15

Where Are Other Language Families Distributed? Classification of languages Indo-European = the largest language family 46 percent of the world’s population speaks an Indo-European language Sino-Tibetan = the second-largest language family 21 percent of the world’s population speaks a Sino-Tibetan language Mandarin = the most used language in the world

Language Families Figure 5-16

Where Are Other Language Families Distributed? Languages of the Middle East and Central Asia Afro-Asiatic Arabic = most widely spoken Altaic Turkish = most widely spoken Uralic Estonian, Hungarian, and Finnish

Language Family Tree Figure 5-17

Where Are Other Language Families Distributed? African language families Extensive linguistic diversity 1,000 distinct languages + thousands of dialects Niger-Congo 95 percent of sub-Saharan Africans speak a Niger-Congo language Nilo-Saharan Khoisan “Click” languages

African Language Families Figure 5-19

Nigeria’s Main Languages Figure 5-20

Why Do People Preserve Languages? Preserving language diversity Extinct languages 473 “endangered” languages today Examples Reviving extinct languages: Hebrew Preserving endangered languages: Celtic Multilingual states Walloons and Flemings in Belgium Isolated languages Basque Icelandic

Languages in Belgium Figure 5-23

Why Do People Preserve Languages? Global dominance of English English: An example of a lingua franca Lingua franca = an international language Pidgin language = a simplified version of a language Expansion diffusion of English Ebonics

Why Do People Preserve Languages? Global dominance of English Diffusion to other languages Franglais The French Academy (1635) = the supreme arbiter of the French language Spanglish Denglish

English–French Language Boundary Figure 5-27

The End. Up next: Religion