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AP Human Geography- Chapter 5 (Language) Flashcards

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7649697970Lingua FrancaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.0
7649708159Sino-Tibetan LanguagesSinitic Branch- Mandarin, Wu, areas of China and Taiwan, Mandarin is the most used language in China Other Asian Language Families- Tai Kadai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, uses logograms1
7649752438Indo European LanguagesGermanic Branch- English and German Indo Iranian- Hindu, Persian, Pashto, Kurdish Balto Slavic- Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusan, Polish2
7649782649CreoleA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.3
7649794040PidginA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.4
7649820571DialectA regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.5
7649831174Extinct LanguagesA language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer practiced.6
7649831175Revived LanguagesA language that has experienced near or complete extinction as either a spoken or written language, has been intentionally revived and has regained some of its former status.7
7650156413DenglishCombination of English and German8
7650157936EbonicsA dialect spoken by some African Americans9
7650161332FranglaisCombination of French and English10
7650164281IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.11
7650165780Isolated LanguageA language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.12
7650165781Language BranchA collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.13
7650167595Language FamilyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before common history.14
7650167596Language 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.15
7650170381SpanglishThe combination of English and Spanish16
7650170547Standard LanguageThe form of language used for official government business, education, and mass communication.17
7661975342(F)erris (B)ueller (G)ets a (L)azy (D)ayFamily, Branch, Group, Language, Dialect18

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