GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pollyanna, Altaic Languages, Afroasiatic Languages
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Language is fundamental for social interacion and for expressing complex emoions and ideas, and to our idenity. Polyanna hypothesis: the idea that there is a universal human tendency to use posiive words more frequently than negaive ones. Language family: a group of language which are described from a single common ancestor language. Language families are made of. : branches: a collecion of languages related through a common ancestor several thousand years ago; diferences are not as extensive or as old (indo-european has eight branches: germanic, romance, greek, armenian, celic, etc, family>branch>group>language. Where did indo-european come from: the kurgan hearth hypothesis (conquering barbarians, the anatolian hearth theory (expanding farmers) The world"s major families: indo-european, sino-tibetan, afro-asiaic, austronesian, dravidian, Languages spread through relocaion difusion and expansion difusion- teaching. Origins of english : old english invasion by west germanic peoples (jutes, angles, saxons, middle english invasion by normans, modern english 1700-1800 ce english vocabulary enlarged, grammar simpliied.
