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1.	types of taxology (4)		1. isolating 2. inflectional 3. agglutinative 4. polysynthetic
2.	sentence orders		1. S V O (English, Romance) 2. S O V (most common, Japanese) 3. V S O (Welsh, Irish)
3.	dying languages		About 50% (not being taught to children). Estimate: 1 century, half of languages gone, maybe less than 1000 left.
4.	number of languages		~ 7000 Number increases due to different categorization.
5.	vernacular Latin		"vulgar Latin" - was spoken on outskirts, and became Ibero-Romance, including Spanish and Portuguese.
6.	Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian		Same, but split due to political differences. (Different spelling - one with Cyrillic, other with roman.)
7.	categorize languages due to (3)		1. mutual intelligible 2. speaker attitudes 3. politics
8.	Arabic colloquials		Egyptian, Algerian, etc. All have the same written "standard" Arabic, but different spoken - not all are mutually intelligible.
9.	Hindi/Urdu		Same language, different writing.
10.	typological features (3)		1. phoneme inventory 2. syllable structure 3. prosody (acoustic properties like rhythm and intonation) Can create a hierarchy of most common to least common.
11.	Arabic vs. Spanish/Port		Both families developed in the same period of time. Spanish/Portuguese now distinguished as two separate languages. Arabic colloquials still share the same writing. Literally, both sets are different within. Attitudewise, Arabic feels part of same community - tied by Quran. S/P does not.
12.	least linguistic diversity		Europe
13.	most linguistic diversity		Asia + Africa