Assignment #2

1. How many sovereign/non-sovereign countries use English as a first language?
There are 68 countries.
2. How many African nations use English as a first language?
There are 22 at the first block and only 1 at the second block.
3. Where are the following islands located:
a. Pitcairn Islands :It is at Oceania, in Pacific Ocean.
b. Saint Helena/Tristan da Cunha: Africa, in the South Atlantic Ocean.
c. Seychelles: Africa, is an archipielago nation in the Indian Ocean.
d. Malta: Europe, is situated in the Southern European areas of the Mediterranean sea.
e. Turk and Caicos Islands: America, in the West Indies.
4. Define the term, lingua franca?
It's used to communicate between person not sharing a mother tonge. It is independient of the linguistic history of structure of the language.
5. English is...
d. a West Germanic language developed in Anglo-Saxon England
6. The history of English is divided into...
b. Old, Middle, Modern
7. The main Germanic tribes who developed Old English were...
a. Angles, Saxons and the Jutes
8. Name the 2 factors which contributed to the spread of English worldwide.
The United States was growning economic and cultural influence status, but at the end of the world war II, when takes a status of global superpower accelerate the process of adoption of the language around the world.
9. Which West Germanic languages are related to English?
They are related Dutch, Afrikaans, German and the Frisian languages, and Yiddish.
10. Which North Germanic languages are related to English?
Danish, Swedish and Norwegian