Unit+3.2-+Language

Language

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Professor Sanders Online chapter assessments- Good practice tests
=Culture Vocab Flashcards= =Language Flashcards= =Religion Flashcards = || ||
 * ====**Language Lab**====
 * ====**Language Lab**====
 * ** Culture Project **[[file:Culture Unit Project.pdf]] ||

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 * Language is, simply put, the bedrock of culture. It is the means by which people communicate their culture from generation to generation as well as to others. You cannot truly understand another culture until you understand its language. Within a language lies not only the culture's method of communication, but also its method of thought. When you speak another language, you must rearrange your thought process to do it right. If any of you were fortunate to be brought up in a multi-lingual family, this change in thought process might be second nature. But it has been painfully clear to me as I have struggled to become fluent in Spanish over the last 15 years. **=====

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** The total number of languages in the world is estimated to be around 6000. Mexico has 52. The old USSR had 100. Nigeria has over 400. The island of Papua New Guinea has over 700, virtually a different one in each valley. India has over 800 languages in several families (Indo-European, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic). (Krysstal) However, most people of the world speak one of Twenty different languages. (Be sure to look at this Chart of the ** **20 Most Spoken Languages** ** and this ** **map of the world's Languages** ** .) ** =====

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** This week we study where all the world's languages came from and how they developed and diffused over the Earth. To do this, we will rely on two excellent resources. We will begin with the Krysstal web site's excellent discussion of ****Languages and Linguistics**** which will provide us with the background information we need. ** =====

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** Languages are divided into related families (read the essays on ** **Language Families**** ). The family to which English belongs is the Indo-European Family. (Read these essays on the ** **Indo-European Language Family**** and the ** **English Language**** .) ** =====

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** Languages also tell us a great deal about our history and the landscape. See this essay on ** **Word and Name Origin** ** and pay particular attention to the sections on people and place names. ** =====

** Now it's time for the geographic perspective. When you have finished these essays, please page through Dr. Sander's excellent powerpoint presentation on language. **

 * ** Language Powerpoint ** ===== ===== || **Part One**

|| **Part Two** ||

[[file:LanguageBlack2013.pdf]] Powerpoint from Deblij Black Book

 * Unfortunately, with the onset of mass communications (rapid flights, radio, television, telephone, the internet), many smaller languages are in danger of extinction. With their passing, a unique cultural way of looking at the world disappears with them. See this brief article on [[image:redeux (1 of 1).jpg width="800" height="535" caption="This street sign in Costa Rica seems to cover all the bases."]]. **


 * ==**Date**== || ==**Subject**== || ==**Homework**== ||
 * === Tuesday, Oct. 17 ===

|| Introduction to Language Issues:Why do Geographers study Language? How to say BR Music: Bilingual Girl- Yerba Buena How to sayLlanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Main Powerpoint for Unit Lost In Translation ||  || Silly Place names from The Guardian Newspaper Geographical Bigotry || ===Complete these Notes by Units end (Dec. 5)===
 * === Wednesday, Oct. 18 === || Toponym Introduction exercise

- submit them electronically to Google Docs.
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 * === Thurs., Oct. 19 === || Toponym Road trip || ===Regional Language Article=== ||

|| Language Lab- Due Tuesday, == || ** Remember to work on the project before the last minute. ** ||
 * === Monday, Oct. 23 === || Quebec Slides

**Quebec Power of Place- The Quebec portion of the video starts at minute 14**
[|Economist Quebec Sovereignty Topic Page] [|You Tube Quebec Sovereignty Topic Page] [|Essay on Quebec Sovereignty Movement from K12 Study Canada] [|Vice- Quebec Separatism] [|Quebec Sovereignty- A Legitimate goal] || ||
 * === Tuesday, Oct. 24 === || || **Endangered Languages**
 * BR Music:** "Aleph-bet (Hosha'ana)."
 * Mystery of the Basque **
 * Learn More about the Basque **
 * Belgium Divided **
 * Do you want to know more about Belgium? **
 * <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">Belgium: What in the world? **
 * <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">Aramaic- struggling but alive **
 * <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">Update: What effect on Aramaic will the Syrian Civil War have? **
 * <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">Quechua helped by Music Video ** || **<span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">The Linguists Video Extras **

** <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">We Still Live Here web site **

 * <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">Ho- Chunk Language resuscitation ** ||
 * ====** Friday, Dec. 4 **==== || <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">How Languages Evolve from TED || ||  ||
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|| <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">Evolution of English from TED <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">A Quick history of English <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">Roots of English from TED <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">Is Croatian a language? Listen to this podcast the languages of the former Yugoslavia. It covers dialect and politics of language. <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">N/u Language <span style="background-image: url("/i/a.gif");">Take this quiz to see your personal language map || **After School Movie: Big Fat Greek Wedding** || ||
 * ====** Thursday, Dec. 3 **==== || Be prepared for Ch.5 reading quiz ||  ||
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 * == Language Links at Scoopit! ==

Articles
NYTimes 8/23/12 Ho-Chunk Language Wash Post 3/16/09 USA Today Travel 10/25/11 Milwaukee Journal 10/22/11 How texting might save endangered languages - NYTImes 12/9/11 Roma or Tigan? - PRI's The World 12/5/11 Four different opinions - Freakonomics 5/28/08
 * The Great Language game
 * Our Mother Tongues
 * The Chicago Accent
 * What do Chicagoans really sound like?
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 * Endangered Languages Project
 * [|Family Tree of Languages Has Roots in Anatolia]
 * [|Preserving Languages is About More Than Words]
 * Iceland's Surname problem and its app
 * [|Hotel Staff Taught to Read Guests' Body Language]
 * [|Language Barriers Keeping Some From FoodShare]
 * [|Everyone Speaks Text Message]
 * [|Linguistic Respect For Gypsies]
 * [|What Will Globalization Do To Languages?]

Video
> The site provides useful links that guide you to the official > sites of the world languages. Pronounced in Old English!
 * [|The World's English Mania (TED Talks)]
 * [|Say What? iPhone Has Problems With Scots Accents]
 * [|Preserving a Dying Language] NYTimes Video
 * [|Appalachian Mountain Talk (Dialect)(YouTube)]
 * [|City of Endangered Languages: NYC]
 * The History of English In 10 Min (YouTube) || ===Web Links===
 * Langfocus site on You Tube- Learn about any language fro a great linguist
 * In Other Words Radio Series from PRI
 * Utah bets big on Mandarin
 * Endangered languages at Wall Street Journal
 * **Untranslatable words**
 * Silicon Valley translates the world
 * Young Women set the language trends
 * Where is the boondocks?
 * History of English infographic
 * Huh?
 * The Mystery of the Basque
 * Belgium Divided
 * Do you want to know more about Belgium?
 * ** Scottish Gaelic Revival with music at it's core **
 * [|Cultural Landscapes Around the World (Dale Lightfoot)]
 * [|American English Dialects]
 * [|IDEA -Dialects of the US (KU)]
 * [|Dialect Survey (Mapped)]
 * [|Commonly Used American Slang Dictionary]
 * [|World Speech Accent Archive (George Mason Univ)]
 * [|Do You Speak American?]
 * [|Arthur The Rat: American Dialects (UW-Madison)]
 * [|Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK]
 * [|Cockney (England) Rhyming Slang Dictionary]
 * [|Sounds of the World's Animals (Language differences)]
 * [|Ethnologue] *
 * Surname Database- Find out what your last name means
 * [|123 World Languages]
 * [|Soda vs Pop]
 * [|French Fury Over english Language (BBC)]
 * [|France's Academie francais Battles)]
 * What Will Globalization Do To Languages?
 * Speech Accent Archive
 * The World in Words
 * [|Our Crazy Language]
 * [|Readings From Beowulf & Canterbury Tales]
 * [|A Sampling of Chinglish (NYTimes)]
 * [|The World of Wikipedia's Languages Mapped]
 * [|Toponyms: Naming American Streams]

Other
PBS - a group of linguists traveling the world in a "race against time" to record languages that are becoming extinct. || media type="custom" key="24227798" = =
 * [|The Linguists,]