What is language?
Correctly spelt words and also knowing their etymology.
Systematic use of speech sounds, signs and written symbols to communicate among people.
Written language since it is one of the most important human inventions
Being a polyglot and being a linguist are the same thing.
Linguistics is a systematic study of human language.
Which of the following statements are true?
Linguistics overlaps sciences and humanities
Animal communication is as complex as human communication.
There's 100 endangered languages.
If an innovation continues to spread and becomes a regular feature of the language, it is called...
Zipf's law, since some words become more frequent.
comparative etymology.
Language change.
Define language death.
The process of ''language transmission'' (passing a language from a generation to the next) stops.
A standard variant becomes so dominant that features found in rural areas are stigmatised.
A language switches from on writing system to another, which leads to texts being hard to read.
A phoneme is...
It's the study of the systematic organisation sounds within a given language.
the study of sounds and how they are produced
A basic unit of sound that's able to distinguish one word from the other.
a way to refer to two vowels following one another
Which of the following statements is true?
Z and V are voiced. S and F are voiceless
S and F are bilabial, Z and V are voiced
S and Z are uvular, V is voiceless and F is a glottal stop
S is an open vowel, Z is interdental, V and F are palatal
Which of the following sounds is an uvular?
The French R
The Spanish R
The Y in yellow.
The German Ü
