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What is the system of communication through speech?
Language
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What is 1489?
Until what year did Parliament continue to conduct business in French?
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What is 153?
Approximately how many languages are spoken by more than 3 million people?
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What is Sino-Tibetan?
Mandarin belongs to which language family?
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What is English?
A language spoken as an official language in 57 countries today.
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What is a language of international communications to facilitate trade?
Lingua Franca
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What is 1066?
What year was England conquered by the Normans?
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What is 6909?
The estimate for the amount of languages the world has.
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What is Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, and Indo-Iranian?
The four major language branches are?
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What are the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons?
The three invading germanic tribes from the German Invasion in Europe.
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What is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history?
Language Family
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What is 2000 B.C.?
The Celts arrived in _______ and spoke a language we call Celtic.
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What is Belgium(Flemmings and Walloons), Quebec/Canada?
In some countries there is a conflict due to language and has even caused the division of said countries. Name an example of a country experiencing this type of conflict.
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What is Mandarin(845 million speakers)?
The most spoken language.
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What is French?
The language that became England's official language for 300 years after the Norman Invasion.
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What is a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being colonized?
Creole
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What is 1024
What year did England lose control of Normandy?
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What is paying for the citizens to learn and speak French?
An incentive government in Quebec uses to get the citizens to speak French.
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What is Hebrew?
An extinct language being revived that is also an official language in Israel.
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What is an isogloss?
There are words that are not used nationally but in a region. Such a boundary for a language is?
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What is a form of Latin used in daily conversations by ancient Romans?
Vulgar Latin
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What is 4300 B.C.?
The oldest evidence of the Kurgans' existence is from the year _______.
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What is spray painting over the French names but leaving the Flemmish ones intact?
Something commonly seen in Belgium's road signs due to the conflict that rages on.
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What is isolation?
Icelandic remains an unchanged language because
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What is spoken worldwide, used for business?
An aspect of a lingua franca.
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