LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Ethnologue, Mutual Intelligibility, Phoneme

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 200
• Professor: Alan Clinton Bale

Document Summary

Isolation languages change in relation to each other: no mixing/sharing of languages. Hot spots of linguistic diversity: some areas of the world simply have a lot of languages, in new guinea, approximately 840 languages are spoken. Indigenous languages of north america: there are approximately 296 spoken (or formerly spoken) indigenous languages north of. Mexico: distributed among 29 language families, language families: groups of languages that have similar characteristics, ex. Most populous languages: 10 languages with the largest number of speakers. Arabic is reported to be like that between spanish and portuguese. In other words : fusion = how morphemes like to attach, synthesis = scale of how many morphemes per word (affixation) Fusion isolating: there are some languages where all or almost all grammatical information is conveyed through isolating markers, koyra chiini, a language of mali, most languages have at least some free grammatical morphemes. Fusion concatenative: concatenative = chaining together .