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DIVERSITY OF EUROPEANLANGUAGES
Доброе утро
• Buenos días
BONJOURпривет
hallo
• goot-en m
or-gen
In the United StatesEnglish is the one dominant language (butNot there is no official Language)
In Europe there are over two hundred native languages.
COMPARISON:
Larger in landmass than U.S. Doubled in population than U.S. One dominant language in U.S. Europe: home to more than two hundred
native languages
3 main categories: Germanic, Romance, and Slavic
GERMANIC:
• Has the most native speakers• Live mostly in northwest and central Europe• 20 percent of Europeans speak one or two
languages: English and German as their native language
• Learn English as second language in schools even if not at home.
Category: GERMANIC
Germanic languages use the Roman alphabet. That’s the alphabet you learned in preschool.
Category: Germanic
• 162 Million European native speakers• German phrases
– Guten Morgen• goot-en mor-gen• Good Morning
– Guten Tag• goot-en tahk• Hello/Good Day
• UNITED KINGDOM: ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, & NORTHERN IRELAND
• IRELAND• MALTA
ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES:
ROMANCE: from the Roman (Rome, Italy) Empire NOT romance as in loveIncludes French, Italian, and SpanishFound in the south and west of EuropeLanguages come from Latin, the language of
the ancient Roman EmpireRoman alphabet used to write both Romance
and Germanic languages
Category: Romance
• 130 Million European native speakers– Latin is no longer spoken as a native language
• French greeting– Bonjour
• Hello / Good day / Good morning
• Italian greeting
– Ciao• Hi / Hello / Bye
COUNTRIES WHO SPEAK FRENCH:
• FRANCE• BELGIUM• MONACO• SWITZERLAND• VATICAN CITY• ANDORRA• Parts of Italy
SLAVIC
Slavic languages include RussianFound in central and eastern Europewritten with Cyrillic alphabet
Category: Slavic
• 140 Million European native speakers– Russian is the most common Slavic language
– До свидания• duh-svee-dah-nya• Good Bye
– Нет• Nyet• No
COUNTRIES WHO SPEAK RUSSIAN:
• RUSSIA• BELARUS• ESTONIA• LATVIA• MOLDOVA• UKRAINE (THEY ALSO SPEAK UKRAINIAN, A
VERSION OF RUSSIAN)
GERMAN ENGLISH RUSSIAN FRENCH ITALILAN
AUSTRIA IRELAND BELARUS BELGIUM ITALY
BELGIUM MALTA ESTONIA FRANCE SAN MARINO
GERMANY UNITED KINGDOM
LATVIA MONACO MONACO
LIECHTENSTEIN MOLDOVA VATICAN CITY SWITZERLAND
SWITZERLAND RUSSIA SWITZERLAND VATICAN CITY
UKRAINE
HAVING MANY LANGUAGES CAN BE CHALLENGING
Difficult to live, work, and trade with people who cannot communication with each other
Europeans have worked hard to solve this problem: school children learn one or two other languages beside their own
European Union has twenty three “official” languages
English is most common
1. How are the languages of French and Italian similar?
A. The two countries are close to each other.B. Both languages are Romance Languages.C. They share roots of Germanic languages.
1. How are the languages of French and Italian similar?
A. The two countries are close to each other.B. Both languages are Romance Languages.C. They share roots of Germanic languages.
2. Which major European language origin has the largest number of native speakers?
A. Germanic B. Romance C. Slavic
2. Which major European language origin has the largest number of native speakers?
A. Germanic B. Romance C. Slavic
3. What have Europeans done to solve the problems presented by so many different
languages?
A. They do not trade with people who do not speak the same language.
B. Made laws that proclaim English is the only official language of the EU.
C. Require students in school to learn at least two languages.
3. What have Europeans done to solve the problems presented by so many different
languages?
A. They do not trade with people who do not speak the same language.
B. Made laws that proclaim English is the only official language of the EU.
C. Require students in school to learn at least two languages.
4. Which language(s) come from the ancient Roman Empire?
A. English and DutchB. Russian and Polish
C. LatinD. French, Italian, Spanish