Question

learning objective: explain what factors lead to the diffus
vocabulary
protolanguage language family language branch
universalizing religion lingua franca
language

1. describe the following language terms

a. protolanguage:
b. language family:
c. language branch
d. language group

1. describe how languages changed over time?
2. what is a lingua franca?

Explanation:

Answer:

a. A hypothetical ancestral language from which a set of related languages has developed over time.
b. A group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral proto-language.
c. A subgroup of a language family, consisting of languages more closely related to each other than to others in the family.
d. A smaller subgroup within a language branch, with languages sharing very recent common origins.