European Languages

SS6G11

The student will describe the cultural characteristics of Europe.

SS6G11

a. Explain the diversity of European languages as seen in a comparison of German, English, Russian, French, and Italian.

Essential Questions

• Why is it important for countries within Europe to have the same languages?

• How does the diversity of languages in Europe reflect its unique cultural characteristics?

Vocabulary• Diversity-

• Comparison-

• Dialects-

differences (races and cultures)

looking at the similarities and differences of things

a variation of a language

German• German is the official language of

________ and ________.• It is also spoken in Switzerland, eastern

part of France, Luxembourg, Italy, and parts of Eastern Europe.

• Many ________ are spoken in Germany and other nations of Europe.

AustriaGermany

dialects

English• English is the official language of

____________.• It is spoken differently from region to

region.• English lends itself to having different

_____________.• People in the __________ _________

speak English but it sounds different than that spoke in Britain.

Britain

accents

United States

Russian• Russian is the official language of __________.

• Russian is known as a ____________ (a branch of Indo-European) language.

• It is the largest native language in ___________.

• Russian is also spoken widespread outside of Russia.

Russia

Slavic

Europe

French• Known as a ‘__________ language.’

• French is the official language of ___________.

• It is also spoken widely in Belgium and Switzerland.

romance

France

Italian

• Known as a ‘____________ language.’

• Italian is the official of ________.

• It is spoken in Switzerland, also.

romance

Italy

• What is difficult about different countries having different languages?

• Why is it important for countries within Europe to have the same languages?

• How does the diversity of languages in Europe reflect its unique cultural characteristics?