Language Arts 802

Front 1

Why is language so important to man?

Back 1

Its the way to communicate with others through speech or signals.

Front 2

Write the steps in the development of modern English, beginning with Indo-European.

Back 2

1. Indo-European 2. Proto-Germanic 3. West Germanic 4. Low German 5. Old English 6. Middle English

Front 3

From what branch of Indo-European did english develop?

Back 3

Low German

Front 4

What type of accent did Germanic use?

Back 4

stress accent

Front 5

What type of accent did Greek use?

Back 5

pitch accent

Front 6

What people spoke Hellenic?

Back 6

Greece

Front 7

Indo-European includes these five major branches:

Back 7

Italo-Celtic, Balto-slavic, Proto-Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian

Front 8

Reading and understanding fourteenth-century English is so difficult for us because

Back 8

English has changed a lot over the centuries.

Front 9

What language did Jesus speak?

Back 9

Aramaic

Front 10

What is the official language of Austria and Germany?

Back 10

High German

Front 11

What form of Italic was spoken before the Celtic migration?

Back 11

Italo-Celtic

Front 12

Which language includes Greek dialects?

Back 12

Hellenic

Front 13

What does HG stand for?

Back 13

High German

Front 14

What does OF stand for?

Back 14

Old French

Front 15

What does Sp. stand for?

Back 15

Spanish

Front 16

What does Gk. stand for?

Back 16

Greek

Front 17

What does F stand for?

Back 17

French

Front 18

What does MF stand for?

Back 18

Middle French

Front 19

What does OE stand for?

Back 19

Old English

Front 20

What does OHG stand for?

Back 20

Old High German

Front 21

What does Du. stand for?

Back 21

Dutch

Front 22

What does Heb. stand for?

Back 22

Hebrew

Front 23

The term used for a person who studies and compares languages is

Back 23

linguist

Front 24

What is dialect?

Back 24

A form of language that is spoken in a particular area and uses some of its own words, grammar, and pronunciations.

Front 25

What does a noun do?

Back 25

names a place, person, or thing

Front 26

What does a pronoun do?

Back 26

it is a noun substitute

Front 27

What does a verb do?

Back 27

expresses an action or state of being

Front 28

what does an adjective do?

Back 28

modifies a noun

Front 29

what does an adverb do?

Back 29

modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverbs

Front 30

Give some differences between Germanic and other Indo-European languages

Back 30

Words that used to start with F changed to B in Latin. In punctuation, Germanic uses an accented root syllable and a stress accent . Greek uses a pitch accent.

Front 31

Explain how language scientists know that an Indo-European parent language existed.

Back 31

They study the changes words in similar language such as Greek, latin, and english make and can trace words back to its original form.

Front 32

Where is Low German spoken?

Back 32

In low countries

Front 33

An ___________ noun can express an idea or quality.

Back 33

abstract

Front 34

Personal compound pronouns are formed by adding _________ and ____________ to the personal pronoun form.

Back 34

-self and -selves

Front 35

Two demonstrative pronouns are

Back 35

this and that

Front 36

"Anybody" is an ________________ pronoun

Back 36

indefinite

Front 37

The ancient literary language of India was

Back 37

Sanskrit

Front 38

The word analytical originally came from

Back 38

Greek

Front 39

English has three main classes of words

Back 39

nouns, modifiers, and verbs

Front 40

List two words that correlate in English, French, and Latin

Back 40

three, seven