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AP Human Geography Chapter 5 Key Terms Flashcards

The Cultural Landscape An Introduction to Human Geography AP Human Geography Chapter 5 Key Terms

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1856336061Creole or Creolized LanguageA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.0
1856336062DenglishA combination of German and English1
1856336063DialectA regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.2
1856336064EbonicsDialect spoken by some African Americans.3
1856336065Extinct LanguageA language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.4
1856336066FranglaisA term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language.5
1856336067IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.6
1856336068Isolated LanguageA language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.7
1856336069LanguageA system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.8
1856336070Language BranchA collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. differences are not as estensive or as old as with language families, and evidence can confirm that the branches are derived from the same family.9
1856336071Language FamilyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.10
1856336072Language GroupA collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in a relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.11
1856336073Lingua FrancaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.12
1856336074Literary TraditionA language that is written as well as spoken.13
1856336075LogogramA symbol that represents a word rather than a sound14
1856336076Official LanguageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.15
1856336077Pidgin LanguageA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.16
1856336078Received Pronunciation (RP)The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdoms17
1856336079SpanglishA combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans.18
1856336080Standard LanguageThe form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.19
1856336081Vulgar LatinA form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.20

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