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Middle Eats groups
- -persians
- -arabs
- -curts
- -turkish
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Coptes
descendants of ancient egyptians
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Demotike
- -spoken vernacular
- -Greece's official language
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Katharevousa
- -midpoint of ancient greek and modern greek
- -used for official and formal purposes
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Greeks and Turks are in what part of Cyprus?
- -more turks in north of cyprus.
- -greeks in south of cyprus.
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Albanians
- -Muslim sunni
- -largest ethnic group in Kosovo
- -Albania
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Breton
is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany, France
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Sino-Tibetan branches
- 1. Sinitic languages
- 2. Austro-Thai
- 3. Tibeto-Burman
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Manderin
- -official language of People's Rebublic of China
- -dialect of bejing
- -contiuum
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Tibeto-Burman
- -branch of Sino-Tibetan famly
- -principle language is Burmese
- -used in Myanmar, Burma
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Lamaism
- -Tibetan form of Buddhism
- -Dalai Lama (leader)
- -teachers are called lamas
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Niger-Congo
- -major african language family
- -named for 2 rivers in west and central Congo
- -contained in Sub-Saharan Africa (95%)
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Wolof
- -part of Niger-Congo family
- -a language of Senegal
- -language of the Wolof people
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Fulfulde(Fulani)
- -Niger-Congo language
- -language of the the Fula people
- -originated in Sene-Gambia but spread out across the north and west africa
- both are very closely related
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Senegambia
-confederation of Senegal and Gambia
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Manden
- -Niger-Congo language
- -native dialect in west africa
- -but in larger area is the language among groups that don't speak the same language
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Gur
- -Niger-Congo language
- -Moore is the most widely used language of the branch
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Akan
- -native language of Akan and Ghana
- -modern Ghana and spills over to the ivory coast
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Bantu languages
- -starts in the bend in africa goes as far as the tip of africa.
- -is a giant dialect continuum, occupies southern portion of africa,
- -complex and has lots of languages
- -tribal identity.
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Lusoga
- - a Bantu language spoken in Uganda
- -native language of the people in Basoga, south Uganda
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Luganda
- -a Bantu language
- -the major language of Uganda
- -Uganda was named after Luganda(people who live there)
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Kinyarwanda
-a Bantu language spoken mainly in Rwana
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Kirundi
- -a Bantu Language
- -spoken Burundi
- -Lake Tanganyika
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Rwanda and Barundi
parts that are mutually intelligible extends beyond the states
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Rwanda genocide
- -Tutsi in control,
- -hutu ruling class right before decolonization.
- -throws society into turmoil
- -period after decolonization becomes persecuted minority
- -Hutus slaughtered Tutsi
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Lusaka
-capital and largest city of Zambia
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Bemba
- -Bantu language
- -Zambia's most widely spoken languages
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Swahili
- -most famous Bantu dialect
- -native dialect only along the coast
- -lingua franca: close to ports, well positioned for trade
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Kikongo
- -Bantu language
- -Mouth of the congo river
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Lingala
- -A Bantu lanuage
- -spoken in northwest Congo
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Luba
- -major ethnic group in Congo
- -congo dialect.
- -areas where it is spoken natively
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4 languages of congo
- 1. Kinkongo
- 2. Linola
- 3. Tshiluba
- 4. Swahili
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Benguela
- -one of angolas most populous cities
- -angola lingua franca nland (native on coast)
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Nyanja
-official language and common lingua franca in Malawi
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Sotho-Tswana
- -southern Bantu languages
- -in Botswana speak Setswana
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Nguni
- -group of Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa by the Nguni people
- -include Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi
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