Chapter 6 about language in the AP Human Geography book.
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| 5461361714 | Language | Set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols used for communication. | 0 | |
| 5461361715 | Culture | Ralph Linton - Total knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared by society members. | 1 | |
| 5461361716 | Standard Language | A language variant used for the norm of media, school, government, and public life by the country's political and intelligent elite. | 2 | |
| 5461361717 | Dialect | Variant of a language (Pronounciation, grammer, and vocabulary). | 3 | |
| 5461361718 | Isogloss | Geogrpahic boundary where linguist reatures occur. | 4 | |
| 5461361721 | Language Family | Grouos of languages with shard, but slightly distant origin. | 5 | |
| 5461361726 | Extinct language | language without any native speakers. | 6 | |
| 5461361737 | Lingua Franca | Ancient language in the Mediterranean ports usually for trading and commerce | 7 | |
| 5461361738 | Pidgin Language | Where 2 or more languages come. Part of each of them combine into a simplified structure and vocabulary. | 8 | |
| 5461361742 | Official Language | Multilingual countries have language chosen by an educated, powerful elite, usually the language is spoken in Courts and in the government. | 9 | |
| 5461361745 | Toponym | PLACE name | 10 | |
| 5461361747 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken; system of written communication. NOT all languages have this. |  | 11 |
| 5461361756 | Standard Language | In a language that has multiple dialects, one dialect may be accepted as the __________ ___________. For example: Mandarin Chinese is the _________ _________ of Chinese, but there are 100's of regional dialects. | 12 | |
| 5461361759 | language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 13 | |
| 5461361760 | language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family. | 14 | |
| 5461361762 | language group | A 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 | |
| 5461361776 | ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English. |  | 16 |
| 5461361784 | isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. | 17 | |
| 5461361787 | lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. | 18 | |
| 5461361788 | pidgin language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages. | 19 | |
| 5461361792 | Denglish | Combination of German and English dialect distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. |  | 20 |
