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AP Human Geography Chapter 5 Language Flashcards

Language

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4024411504AccentA distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.0
4024411505DialectA particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group.1
4024411506EsperantoAn artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages.2
4024411507Extinct LanguageAn extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use.3
4024411508IdeogramA written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six)4
4024411509IsoglossA geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs.5
4024411510Isolated Languagea natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language.6
4024411511Language BranchA Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family.7
4024411512LanguageThe method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.8
4024411513Language GroupA Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.9
4024411514Language FamilyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history10
4024411515Indo European language familyLargest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia.11
4024411516Sino-Tibetan Language Family2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese12
4024411517Lingua FrancaA Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages13
4024411518Literary TraditionA Language that is written as well as spoken14
4024411519MonolingualThe condition of being able to speak only a single language15
4024411520BilingualThe ability to speak two languages16
4024411521MultilingualThe ability to speak multiple languages17
4024411522Official LanguageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.18
4024411523OrthographyThe conventional spelling system of a language.19
4024411524Pidgin 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.20
4024411525Standard LanguageThe form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.21
4024411526Toponyma place name or a word derived from the name of a place22
4024411527Trade LanguageA language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade.23
4024411528VernacularUsing a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people.24
4024644238Creolea mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage25
4024659524DenglishThe term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German.26
4024701853Franglaisa form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English.27
4024711975EbonicsAmerican black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English28
4024723288Spanglisha hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions.29

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