Language - Ms. Preissler

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Population Review

• What were the 4 regions of high population?
• Which country is the most populated?
• What country has a high fertility rate, but low
  life expectancy?

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Doubling Time The number of years needed to
double a population.
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Population Pyramid Review

• In the future what is a possible issue Germany
  will have?
• What vocab word do we use to describe this?

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Population Stages

• 4 Stages of Population
• Stage 1 Low Growth
• No counties in Stage 1
• Stage 2 High Growth
• Stage 3 Moderate Growth
• Stage 4 Low Growth

Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
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Intro to Language
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Wow! Look at all these languages!
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There are over 7,300 languages in the
world. Only 10 languages are spoken by at least
100 million people. Over 6,000 languages are
spoken by fewer than 2 million people
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Language Communication

• Language is a system of communication through
  speech.
• Many languages also have a literary tradition, or
  a system of written communication.

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Official Language

• Used by the government for laws, reports and
  public objects and signs.

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Some countries, like Canada, have two official
languages. Can you think of any problems that
might result in having more than one official
language?
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Languages can go extinct. Cornish began to die
out in the mid- 19th Century What language did
people start speaking instead? Why? How does
globalization affect the decline or advancement
of languages?
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When and how was English invented?

• Many languages are actually related and are
  members of language families.

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Origin of English in England

• The British Isles have been inhabited for
  thousands of years, but we know little of their
  early languages, until the Celts arrived around
  2000 B.C.
• Then, around 450AD, tribes from mainland Europe
  invaded, pushing the Celts into the remote
  northern and western parts.

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Origin of English in England

• German tribes invade during the 5th-11th
  Centuries
• Anglo-Saxon, Angles Land England

• In 1066 the French-speaking Normans invaded
  England and ruled for the next 300 years.

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Icelandic is a Germanic language like English,
yet it has remained largely unchanged. In
fact, its the Germanic language today that most
resembles the language that was spoken by the
invading Germanic tribes. Why?
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Dialect

• Form of language that is spoken in a local or
  regional area.

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What led to differences in pronunciation in
America?
Communication was through letters, not direct
speech.
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How did new sounds develop in America? Colonists
encountered new objects that they needed names
for so they just borrowed words from Native
American languages. What sounds do you make
when you say the following?
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What led to differences of spelling in America?
When Noah Webster created his American
dictionary, he slightly changed the spelling of
several words to help create a new identity for
the United States and to help instill national
pride.
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