SOIM-UB 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Altaic Languages, Devanagari, Afroasiatic Languages

• School: New York University
• Department: Social Impact
• Course: SOIM-UB 1
• Professor: Social Studies

Document Summary

A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family. A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. West germanic invaders from jutland (denmark) known as the anglos, saxons, and jutes began populating the british isles in the 5th and 6th centuries ad. Pushed the native celtic speaking people into scotland, whales, and ireland. A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer"s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. Papiamento (creolized spanish) in netherlands antilles (west indies)