GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Indo-European Languages
20 Dec 2017
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Language: a fundamental way that we distinguish between cultural groups. One group over here as they speak one certain language and another here since they speak a different language. Language is a cultural variable: a learned behaviour. Something you"re not born with but learn as you become a certain member of society. Language is a useful tool to delimit groups and regions. Language and the survival of cultural groups. Want to preserve their language therefore they changed signs/ store names into french. As many as 7000 languages existed prior to the period of european colonization. Negative: loss of culture akin to declining biodiversity. Language family: a group of closely related languages that likely share a common (and ancient) origin. Language branch: a sun-set of a language family, and with a more recent origin (i. e. past several thousand years) A single hearth area (eastern europe near the black sea) and then diffusion.
