Chapter 6 about language in the AP Human Geography book.
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| 995628816 | Language | Set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols used for communication. | |
| 995628817 | Culture | Ralph Linton - Total knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared by society members. | |
| 995628818 | Standard Language | A language variant used for the norm of media, school, government, and public life by the country's political and intelligent elite. | |
| 995628819 | Dialect | Variant of a language (Pronounciation, grammer, and vocabulary). | |
| 995628820 | Isogloss | Geogrpahic boundary where linguist reatures occur. | |
| 995628821 | Mutual Intelligibility | Two people understand each other when speaking. | |
| 995628822 | Dialect Chains | Set of contigious dielcts where the one near each other at any place in the chain arw most closely related. | |
| 995628823 | Language Family | Grouos of languages with shard, but slightly distant origin. | |
| 995628824 | Subfamilies | Divisions within a family; commolities more definite. | |
| 995628825 | Sound Shift | Slight word change in language within the subfamilies and language family from present time, backward to its origin. | |
| 995628826 | Proto Indo-European | Ancestral Indo-european | |
| 995628827 | Backward Reconstruction | Tracking Sound shifts and hardening of consonants "backwards" to the original language. | |
| 995628828 | Extinct language | language without any native speakers. | |
| 995628829 | Deep reconstruction | Recreate language that preceded it. | |
| 995628830 | Nostratic | Proto Indo-European ancient ancenstor | |
| 995628831 | Language Divergence | 1 language formed into 2. | |
| 995628832 | Language Convergence | 2 languages collapsing into 1. | |
| 995628833 | Renfrew's Hypothesis | -That said Proto Indo-European came from the Fertile Cresent. Anatolia into Europe, West Arc to North Africa and Arab, and East Arc into Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. | |
| 995628834 | Conquest Theory | THEORY said that early Pro-Indo-Eurpean speakers spread West by horseback, overpowering, beginning diffusion snd differentiation of the Indo-European tongues. | |
| 995628835 | Dispersal Theory | THEORY said Indo-Eupopean first moved East to SouthWest asia -> Caspian Sea -> Russian-Ukraine Plains -> Balkans. Another part said it moved west. | |
| 995628836 | Romance Languages | French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portugese | |
| 995628837 | Germanic Languages | English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish | |
| 995628838 | Slavanic Languages | Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian. | |
| 995628839 | Lingua Franca | Ancient language in the Mediterranean ports usually for trading and commerce | |
| 995628840 | Pidgin Language | Where 2 or more languages come. Part of each of them combine into a simplified structure and vocabulary. | |
| 995628841 | Creole Language | Began as a Pidgin language, but later adopted as mother tongue by the people of the mother tongue land. | |
| 995628842 | Monolingual States | Countries with one language spoken. | |
| 995628843 | Multilingual States | Countries with more than one language spoken. | |
| 995628844 | Official Language | Multilingual countries have language chosen by an educated, powerful elite, usually the language is spoken in Courts and in the government. | |
| 995628845 | Global Language | Language most commonly used around the world. Basis of many speakers or trade prevelance. | |
| 995628846 | Place | Uniqueness of a location. | |
| 995628847 | Toponym | PLACE name |
