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DIVERSITY OF EUROPEANLANGUAGES

Доброе утро

• Buenos días

BONJOURпривет

hallo

• goot-en m

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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

Green- Germanic languages

Beige- Romance languages

Orange- Slavic languages

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

GERMAN SPEAKING COUNTRIES:

• GERMANY• AUSTRIA• BELGIUM• LIECHTENSTEIN• SWITZERLAND• LUXEMBOURG

• 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

Romance languages use theRoman alphabet.

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

COUNTRIES WHO SPEAK ITALIAN:

• ITALY• VATICAN CITY• MONACO• SAN MARINO• SWITZERLAND

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

Category: Slavic

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SIGNS USING THE CYRILLIC ALPHABET

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

Green- Germanic languages

Beige- Romance languages

Orange- Slavic 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.

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

4. Which language(s) come from the ancient Roman Empire?

A. English and DutchB. Russian and Polish

C. LatinD. French, Italian, Spanish