Please watch the following videos and reading pg. 146-153 of Cultural Landscape for the questions below, thanks!
1. What forms of power would have moved boats 2,000 years ago?
2. Based on Figure 5-3, which four other languages with at least 5 million speakers belong to the same language family, branch, and group as English?
3. Sino-Tibetan is the second-most widely used language family, but it appears on Figure 5-6 to encompass a smaller land area than several other language families. Why is this the case?
4. Most languages are named for regions or countries. For example, based on their names, how would you expect the distribution of Austronesian and Austro-Asiatic to differ?
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1. What forms of power would have moved boats 2,000 years ago?
language
2. Based on Figure 5-3, which four other languages with at least 5 million speakers belong to the same language family, branch, and group as English?
slovak Danish Norwegian bhili
Sino-Tibetan is the second-most widely used language family, but it appears on Figure 5-6 to encompass a smaller land area than several other language families. Why is this the case?
THere are no single Chinese language. Rather, the most use language is Mandarin. spoken by approximately three-fourth Chinese people.
Most languages are named for regions or countries. For example, based on their names, how would you expect the distribution of Austronesian and Austro-Asiatic to differ?
Austronesian:
6 precent of people in the world.
mostly in Indonesia.
Austro-Asiaticu:
2 percent of people in the
vitenamese
The vitenamese alphabet was devised in the seventeen century by Roman Catholic missionaries
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1. Wind ,manpower for short distance
2. German, Afrikaans,Bavarian and Dutch
3. The reason why the spread area is small is that there is a large number of people use Sino-Caucasian. Such as China. China has the largest number of people and they talk Mandarin.
4. Obviously, the name of the language relates closely to the region. For example, in this question, Austro-Asiatic type of languages locate at Asia , because there is a word “Asia” In it. An other example: Austronesian locate in mostly in Indonesia.
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1.Wind power and manpower
2.German, Afrikaans,Bavarian and Dutch
3. The small spread area is due to the large number of people using sino-Caucasians.Such as China has the largest number of people and they talk Mandarin.
4.The name of a language is closely related to the region. For example, there is a word “Asia” in Asian languages, Austronesian，The former means the south, the latter means the islands. Austro-Asiatic, a family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia.
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1. What forms of power would have moved boats 2,000 years ago?
Wind power , manpower
2.Based on Figure 5-3, which four other languages with at least 5 million speakers belong to the same language family, branch, and group as English?
German, Afrikaans,Bavarian and Dutch
3.Sino-Tibetan is the second-most widely used language family, but it appears on Figure 5-6 to encompass a smaller land area than several other language families. Why is this the case?
Chinese Branch includes 11 kinds, such as Mandarin,Shanghainese, Cantonese and Taiwanese. Those languages spoken by more people than Tibeto-Burman Branch.
4. Most languages are named for regions or countries. For example, based on their names, how would you expect the distribution of Austronesian and Austro-Asiatic to differ?
Austronesian languages, formerly Malayo-Polynesian languages, family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; Distribution in all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific
Austroasiatic languages have a disjunct distribution across Southeast Asia and parts of India, Bangladesh, Nepal and East Asia, separated by regions where other languages are spoken.
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1.In the past, some people sailed 3000 kilometers for migration. At that time, the technology was not advanced, their trip was totally depending on the wind and their own power.
2. The figure shows that each language family as a tree, there are a lot of languages with at least 5 million speakers belong to the same language family as English such as German, Afrikaans, Slovak and Danish.
3. Actually, Sino-Tibetan is one of the most widely used language in the world, but it shows only small land are using the language. The reason for this happened is there are too many people in China even though the land of this country is not large.
4. The name of the language is depending on the region. Just like Austronesian and Austro-Asiatic which has a Asia in both of them.The former means the south, the later means the islands. Austro-Asiatic, a family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia
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