【英语国家概况】102 UK-2 The Language [兼容模式].pdf

语言的谱系分类法 1. Indo-European languages 46% (Europe, Southwest to South Asia, America, Oceania) 2. Sino-Tibetan languages 21% (East Asia) 3. Niger-Congo languages 6.4% (Sub-Saharan Africa) 4. Afro-Asiatic languages 6.0% (North Africa to Horn of Africa, Southwest Asia) 5. Austronesian languages 5.9% (Oceania, Madagascar, maritime Southeast Asia) 语言的谱系分类法 6. Dravidian languages 3.7% (South Asia) 7. Altaic languages 2.3% (Central Asia, Northern Asia, Anatolia, Siberia) 8. Japonic languages 2.1% (Japan) 9. Austro-Asiatic languages 1.7% (mainland Southeast Asia) 10. Tai-Kadai languages 1.3% (Southeast Asia) Indo-EuropeanIndo-European Language FamilyLanguage Family 印欧语系 Genetic One of the worlds major language families classification Geographic Before the 15th century, Europe, and South, Cent distribution and Southwest Asia; today worldwide. Albanian group Anatolian (e.g., Hittite) Armenian Balto-Slavic (e.g., Russian, Lithuanian) Celtic (e.g., Irish, Welsh) Subdivisions Germanic (e.g., English, German, Swedish) Hellenic (e.g., Greek) Indo-Iranian (e.g., Bengali, Hindi, Persian, Kurdi Italic (e.g., French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanis Tocharian 练习： • 用树形图表示以下现代语言的关系： • Romance, Indo-Iranian, Slavic, Polish, Italian, German, English, Greek, Celtic, Welsh, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Germanic, Bulgarian The language historian divides English history into three times: 1、Ancient English （又称盎格鲁-萨克森时期公元450—1100年） The history of the English language began over 1500 years ago in the north of Europe. Around the fifth century A.D., tribes of people known as the Angel