important final exam study questions: language geography

In addition to reviewing the "general notes" and the "language area" notes, please become familiar with the answers to these questions:

How many languages are currently spoken in the world?

What are the major language families of India? of Africa? of East Asia? (Cf. "http://www.ksc.kwansei.ac.jp/~jed/IntroLgCult/TheHumanMosaic/p184.jpeg" and "http://www.ksc.kwansei.ac.jp/~jed/IntroLgCult/TheHumanMosaic/p185.jpeg".)

What are the autochthonous and indigenous languages of Japan?

What are the autochthonous, indigenous, colonial, and recent immigrant languages of Taiwan? of Belize? of Guatemala? (Cf. entries in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.)

What are the heritage languages of Japan?