For Mr. Holland's AP Human Geography class at Parkview
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| 7997952143 | Agricultural Theory | farming peoples of Anatolia (present Turkey) moved slowly westward and north into Europe, spreading the Proto-Indo-European language | 0 | |
| 7997952144 | Conquest Theory | the belief that from a Kurgan hearth, early Proto-Indo-European speakers diffused onward on horseback to Europe and to India overpowering the original inhabitants | 1 | |
| 7997952145 | Creolized Language | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 2 | |
| 7997952146 | Dialects | local or regional characteristics of a language with pronunciation differences and a distinctive grammar and vocabulary | 3 | |
| 7997952147 | Isogloss | a line on a dialect map marking the boundary between different accents, word choices, or other linguistic features | 4 | |
| 7997952148 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way | 5 | |
| 7997952149 | Language Convergence | the blending of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages | 6 | |
| 7997952150 | Language Divergence | occurs when a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of a language breaks the language into dialects and then eventually new languages | 7 | |
| 7997952151 | Language Family | group of languages with a shared origin but fairly distant origin (a long, long, long time ago). Linguists agree on the common origin | 8 | |
| 7997952152 | Language Group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past (a long time ago) and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary | 9 | |
| 7997952153 | Language Replacement | when languages of traditional, numerically smaller, and technologically less advanced people are replaced, or greatly modified, by the languages of Invaders | 10 | |
| 7997952154 | Language Subfamily | a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago (a long, long time ago) | 11 | |
| 7997952155 | Lingua Franca | a common agreed language of business in an area where people speak different languages | 12 | |
| 7997952156 | Monolingual States | countries in which only one language is spoken | 13 | |
| 7997952157 | Multilingual States | countries in which more than one language is in use. Often times there is conflict between different cultural groups | 14 | |
| 7997952158 | Official Language | the actual language(s) adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 15 | |
| 7997952159 | Preliterate Societies | people who speak their language, but do not write it | 16 | |
| 7997952160 | Sound Shift | slight change in a word across languages within a subfamily or through a language family from the present backward toward its origin | 17 | |
| 7997952161 | Standard Language | the "form" of a language with specific grammar rules and word choice that is used for official government business, education, and mass communications. This form is determined by those who have power. | 18 | |
| 7997952162 | Toponymy | the place names of a region or, especially, the study of place names | 19 |
