Indo-European Branches of Lan­guage, Romance, Balto-Slavic Branch of Indo-European The Indo-European language family is the world's most extensively spoken language family. Nearly 3 billion people speak an Indo-European language as their first language. English is a part of the Indo-European ...Read More

Indo-European Branches of Lan­guage, Romance, Balto-Slavic Branch of Indo-European 7

Have u ever wondered WHY  certain countries speak the language of another? Lingua Franca= is the name for languages ,such as English, that are spoken international. This term means language of the Franks, and was used for Arab traders during the ...Read More

Global DOMINANCE of ENGLISH

there are many different languages spoken throughout the world. these langauges all belong to a language family, and each language is a different branch. there are approximately  nine language families: Indo-European: spoken by 48% of the world's total population Sino-Tibetan:spoken by 26%of world's ...Read More

distribution of different languages

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I  INTRODUCTION African Languages, group of languages that are native to Africa. Scholars estimate that Africa’s people speak a total of more than 1000 languages—more languages than are spoken on any other continent. Of these languages, about 50 have 500,000 or ...Read More

AFRICAN LANGUAGES

More than 95% of the people in sub-Saharan Africa speak languages of the Niger-Congo family, which contains 6 branches of hard-to-classify languages. The largest branch is Benue-Congo. It includes three languages used as the first languages by at least 10 ...Read More

African Languages

Global Dominance of English One of the most fundamental needs in a global society is a common language for communication. Increasingly in the modern world, the language of international communication is English. English is the official language at the airbus aircraft factory ...Read More

15.Global Dominance Of English

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The chapter outlines have moved here to Martin's new site (click here for link). They are very straightforward lists of the key elements of each chapter and do not define or summarize anything.  They can be useful as a checklist of ...Read More

Rubenstein Chapter Outlines

FRQ Possibilities Themes to Review Diffusion – 2 types - relocation and expansion (3 subgroups) Population patterns – MDC and LDC trends, why? East-West Divide vs. new North-South Divide MDC vs. LDC – industrial patterns Outsoucing/offshoring Thomas Malthus, Ester Boserup and von Thunen (connections) Von Thunen vs. ...Read More

FRQ Possibilities Themes to Review