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11593752279BelgiumFlanders v French Brussels is French but in the Flanders area (keeps them together)0
11593752280LanguageSet of mutually intelligible sounds and symbols that are used for communication1
11593752281Language reflects and shapesCulture. Binds it together2
11593752282Language showsWhere a culture has been How people think How people perceive the world3
11593752283Standard languageMost more developed countries have one People in power decide it -forces assimilation for colonized people, including switching laguages4
11593752284DialectVarieties of a standard language5
11593752285Dialect is distinguished byVocabulary Syntax (way phrases are put together) Pronunciation (accents)6
11593752286Dialect chainDialects near each other are more similar Dialects become less intelligible over distance due to less interaction7
11593752287mutually intelligibleTwo people can understand each other when speaking due to close relationships between dialects or languages (Portuguese and Spanish)8
11593752288Who determines who is speaking correctlyPeople in power9
11593752289Language familiesA group of related languages that developed from a common historic ancestor10
11593752290Proto-Indo-European (PIE)Largest language family (European colonization) Backward reconstruction linguistics theorize it began near the Black Sea or East Central Europe11
11593752291Subfamiliesdivisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent12
11593752292Most spoken languageChinese13
11593752293Afro-AsiaticA nostratic language- no one speaks it anymore14
11593752294Why language is always changingErrors Linguistic divergence- when speakers are seperated15
11593752295Indo-European languages in EuropeGermanic Romantic Slovick16
11593752296Backward reconstructionTracing how languages fit together by comparing current languages and working backward -similarities and differences in current words17
11593752297language divergenceWhen people move apart it breaks the language into dialects and potentially new languages18
11593752298language convergenceTwo languages merging together because of lots of interaction19
11593752299ExtinctionNo more interaction between dead languages and new ones20
11593752300William Jones (finding the heath)Looked for similarities/differences between words Found similarities between Sanskrit, Ancient Greek and Latin. -believed they must have come from the same source21
11593752301Jakob Grimm-Sound shifts may prove relationships among languages -Similar but not identical consonants -overtime consonants change hard to soft --backward reconstruction (soft to hard)22
11606191294Kurgan theory- language diffusion of PIEBlack/Caspian Sea Hearth Diffused through conquest Divergence of language east to west in Europe23
11606191295Renfrew hypothesis- language diffusion of PIEAnatolian (Turkey) hearth Diffused peacefully via agriculture24
11606191296Oppenheimer theory- language diffusion of PIEIndian hearth -genetic evidence used to show earlier hearth is central Africa -PIE hearth is India -predates the other theories25
11606191297Lingua Franca-Language used among speakers of different languages for the purpose of trade and commerce -can be a mix of languages26
11606191298Pidgin LanguageCombined and simplified languages (informal)27
11606191299Creole languageA pidgin language that developed more complex vocab and structure. Becomes a native language (Swahili, creole)28
11606191300Language and place-part of the cultural landscape- tells a history of a place --roots in migration, movement, interactions -place names are toponyms -countries/cultures may disagree over names of places --power relationship (bull run/ manadas)29
11610468812DescriptivismHow a language is actually spoken/written30
11610468813PrecriptivismCorrect way the language should be spoken (grammatically rules)31
11610468814Who resists language changeHigher class/ socially dominant, to avoid affiliation with subordinate groups and maintain social distinction through language32

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