ANTP
Indo-European
Largest language family in the world, includes English and most Western European languages.
Spanish
Spanish is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula.
Otomanguean language
Spoken in Southern Mexico, the majority of speakers live in US
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
prehispanic
This word means "before the Spanish arrived in Mesoamerica." The time prior to Spanish conquests in the Western Hemisphere.
Evidentials
forms or structures that provide an indication of how the speaker knows the information being conveyed
Morpheme
in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)
Sociolinguistics
investigates relationships between social and linguistic variation and culture
protolanguage
language ancestral to several daughter languages
language endangerment
occurs when a language is spoken fluently by very few people and is in danger of death
Code-switching
switching back and forth between one linguistic variant and another depending on the cultural context
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
the idea that different languages create different ways of thinking
Paralanguage
vocalic behaviors that communicate meaning along with verbal behavior
language family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
Creole
A pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it
language revitalization
Attempts by linguists and activists to preserve or revive languages with few native speakers that appear to be on the verge of extinction.
Yucatec Mayan
Is one of the 33 Mayan languages of the Mayan language family. Yucatec Maya is spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize.
Aztecan
Nahuatl was the lingua franca of the Aztecs, who ruled Mexico between the 14th and 16th centuries before they were conquered by the Spaniards. It is still spoken by nearly 1.5 million Mexicans, but otherwise is largely unknown.
Nahuatl
Nahuatl, Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
stigma
Negative feeling about a person speaking an indigenous language
Colonial Period New Spain
New Spain (1535-1821) ran from present-day Washington State southeast through Louisiana, then down through Latin America. From palaces in Mexico City, the viceroys also governed the Caribbean and the Philippines.
Zapoteca
The Zapotecs are the indigenous people of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
lingua franca
a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different. Spanish
indigenous language
a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous people
Phones
a speech sound in a language
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
a system of writing designed to represent all the sounds used in the different languages of the world
register
a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. Pray, military, formal, friends etc