Appetizer
Made by Ankith Bhat and Teighan Smyth
Language
Standard Language
Official Language
Th official language of America is English. The official language of a country is the language that is is taken for use by the government for business and publication of documents, though there are special cases.
Multilingual States
Lingua Franca
Dialect
Pidgin Language
A language where people combine parts of two or more languages into a simplifies structure and vocabulary. An example would be the phrase "dem no go look at di way" this is a pidgin language because it has a simplified grammar and vocabulary of a lingua franca, English.
Spanglish
Agriculture theory
With increased food demand and population, migration of speakers from the hearth of Indo-European languages into Europe. Look at Hebrew and Greek. Hebrew was in the Fertile Crescent and spread, evolving through relocation diffusion. Despite being different languages, Greek and Hebrew share some similarities (how some of the characters look alike) and some differences (Hebrew has no vovels).
Conquest Theory
The theory regarding the diffusion of the Proto-Indo-European language from the Fertile Crescent to other regions through warfare. Babylon spread through the Conquest Theory it spread its influence.