What is the difference between internal and external influence on language change?

1. 
   What is the difference between internal and external influence on language change?
   
2. 
   What is the mission of the linguistic society of America?
   
3. 
   What are the causes of language death?
   
4. 
   What caused English to borrow words from Latin, such as mass, abbot, candle?
   
5. 
   What was the linguistic result of colonization of the Americas?
   
6. 
   Why are some languages like English, French, and Russian regarded as “Killer languages”?
   

7. 
   What is the historical context of Old English? What languages did it come from? When and where?
   
8. 
   What are some differences between Old English and Middle English?
   
9. 
   What is Thomason and Kaufman’s position regarding the creolization of English under the Norman influence?
   
10. 
    Why is The Great Vowel Shift important to the formation of Early Modern English?
    
11. 
    What are changes between vowels in Middle and Early Modern English?
    
12. 
    What were the first two English language dictionaries?
    

13. 
    As the table illustrates which language is the most commonly spoken language?
    

Answer: Chinese (Mandarin)

14. 
    According to the table what percent of Japanese speakers use it as a second language?
    

Answer: 1%
3) Why can people from the northern part of the U.S. and the southern part understand each other easily?

Answer: because they speak dialects of the same language

4) Name two dialects which are mutually intelligible in writing, but not in speaking.

Answer: Cantonese and Mandarin.

5) What is a pidgin?

Answer: a contact language.

6) What country is given as an example in the text as a country where English is taught as a foreign language in schools, but has not official status?

Answer: Germany.