INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY

Indo-European Family

Language Family is a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor (proto language)

What relates languages into one ancestor?

DIALECT

VOCABULARY

PRONUNCIATION

GRAMMAR&STRUCTURE

There are 225 language families recorded worlwide

Major/prominent Languge Families

By number of native speakers

This is a list of the top ten families with wide recognition as phylogenetic units, in terms of numbers of native speakers, listed with their core geographic areas.

1. Indo-European languages (Europe, Southwest to South Asia, America, Oceania)

2. Sino-Tibetan languages (East Asia)

3. Niger-Congo languages (Sub-Saharan Africa)

4. Afro-Asiatic languages (North Africa to Horn of Africa, Southwest Asia)

5. Austronesian languages (Oceania, Madagascar, maritime Southeast Asia)

6. Dravidian languages (South Asia)

7. Altaic languages (Central Asia, Northern Asia, Anatolia, Siberia)

8. Austro-Asiatic languages (mainland Southeast Asia)

9. Tai-Kadai languages (Southeast Asia)

10. Japonic languages (Japan)

By variety

According to the numbers in Ethnologue, the largest language families in terms of number of languages are the following. Some families are controversial, and in many the language count varies between researchers.

1. Niger-Congo (1,514 languages)

2. Austronesian (1,268 languages)

3. Trans–New Guinea (564 languages) (number disputed)

4. Indo-European (449 languages)

5. Sino-Tibetan (403 languages)

6. Afro-Asiatic (375 languages)

7. Nilo-Saharan (204 languages)

8. Pama-Nyungan (178 languages)

9. Oto-Manguean (174 languages) (number varies; Lyle Campbell counts 27)

10. Austro-Asiatic (169 languages)

11. Sepik-Ramu (100 languages)

12. Tai-Kadai (76 languages)

13. Tupi (76 languages)

14. Dravidian (73 languages)

15. Mayan (69 languages)

Indo-European

Language Family

a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau (Southwest Asia), Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent (South Asia).

Indo refers to Indian sub continent

European refers to Europe

There are 449 languages in this family according to 2005 Ethnologue

BRITISH STUDIES

UNITED KINGDOM

• is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe
• It is an island country spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands
• Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom with a land border, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland

• Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. The largest island, Great Britain, is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel.

ENGLAND

•ENGLAND IS A COUNTRY THAT IS PART OF UNITED KINGDOM

•Its mainland is on the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic

•England shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west

•adjoins the Irish Sea to the north-west, the Celtic Sea to the south-west and the North Sea to the east

Summary: The Queen Movie

The Queen

The different happened between the Queen and the prime minister. It influenced the society of Britain. It happened when Lady Diana died. She is the ex princess in that empire. She had different opinion with the queen so that Princess Diana went out from the scope empire. Diana became amazement the Britain society. She had the different thought with empire concept. The society is very support Diana so that they called Diana with Lady Diana. She is kind, churlish and agreement with the society. All of media always followed her. One day, media knew that Lady Diana is in French. She was attending the invitation. When Lady Diana wanted to go to hotel, several media followed her. The driver was over control and the accident happened. The accident killed Lady Diana.

Breaking news is over the world. The Britain society is shocked by this news except the empire. The queen family thought nothing of it. They didn’t do something except the prince. He went to French directly but he pocketed this report from his children. The prime minister called the queen and said sorry to hear that. But he got a bad response. The prime minister prepared his first speech in memory of Lady Diana. All of the Britain society was very amazing with the prime minister speech. They felt that prime minister support them.

The Britain society brought garland in front of the empire until closed two gates. But the queen sill did nothing. The society wanted open funeral for them but the Queen rejected. She wanted a close funeral because she is nothing. They bundled the empire hanged flag at half mast also but is still rejected. From here the difference happened between the society and the Queen. They felt that the Queen didn’t admire ex princess. They judged empire and promised to don’t respect the Queen if she didn’t accept what the wanted. The prime minister implored for them before something will happen. Finally, the Queen agreed to open funeral and hanged flag at half mast.