english and other european languages
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Una Sabljaković, Amela Silajdžić, Nejra Piljug
FAMILY OF LANGUAGES
Group of languages that are related to one
another in term of orgin
Contains several subdivisons (branches)
Romance,
Germanic,
Baltic,
Slavic,
Albanian,
Celtic,
Armenian
Hellenic (Greek)
2.URALIC:Hungarian,
Finnish,
Estonian
3.Turkic
4.Mongolic
1.INDO-EUROPEAN:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Germanic language
family
350 million native
speakers
Most commonly-learned
second language
Alphabet - 26 Roman
letters
GRAMMAR
Doesn’t have a large
number of inflections
ex.:
ask,asks,asked,asking
Does have a large
number of possible
tenses (verb forms)
VOCABULARY
The largest vocabulary
of any language
One million words
GERMAN
ALPHABETThe alphabet contains the same
26 letters (+ä, ö, ü, and ß)
PHONOLOGYThe /th/ sound doesn’t exist
GRAMMARDoesn’t have a continuous tense
form (I eat dinner)
VOCABULARY
Share many cognates
DUTCH
ALPHABETSame Latin alphabet as English
PHONOLOGYSimilar
English words end with voiced
consonants, doesn’t exist in Dutch
(rub-rup, bird-birt) GRAMMAR
Similar tenses
Doesn’t use the auxiliary doin questions or negatives
(Where you come from? / I
drink not beer)
VOCABULARY
Have a great number of cognates,
basic Germanic vocabulary and
shared Romance vocabulary
ENGLISH
House
Drink
Two
Good
Forget
Out
Buy
DUTCH
Huis
Drinken
Twee
Goed
Vergeten
Uit
Kopen
SIMILAR VOCABULARY
GERMAN
Haus
Trinken
Zwei
Gut
Vergessen
Aus
Kaufen
SIMILAR USES OF WORDS
ENGLISH
Drink
Drank
Drunk
Come
Came
Come
DUTCH
Drinken
Drank
Gedronken
Komen
Kwam
Gekomen
Trinken
Trank
Getrunken
Kommen
Kam
Gekommen
GERMAN