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AP Human Geography Language vocab Flashcards

Chapter 6 about language in the AP Human Geography book.

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8154024988LanguageSet of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols used for communication.0
8154024989CultureRalph Linton - Total knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared by society members.1
8154024990Standard LanguageA language variant used for the norm of media, school, government, and public life by the country's political and intelligent elite.2
8154024991DialectVariant of a language (Pronounciation, grammer, and vocabulary).3
8154024992IsoglossGeogrpahic boundary where linguist reatures occur.4
8154024993Mutual IntelligibilityTwo people understand each other when speaking.5
8154024994Dialect ChainsSet of contigious dielcts where the one near each other at any place in the chain arw most closely related.6
8154024995Language FamilyGrouos of languages with shard, but slightly distant origin.7
8154024996SubfamiliesDivisions within a family; commolities more definite.8
8154024997Sound ShiftSlight word change in language within the subfamilies and language family from present time, backward to its origin.9
8154024998Proto Indo-EuropeanAncestral Indo-european10
8154024999Backward ReconstructionTracking Sound shifts and hardening of consonants "backwards" to the original language.11
8154025000Extinct languagelanguage without any native speakers.12
8154025001Deep reconstructionRecreate language that preceded it.13
8154025002NostraticProto Indo-European ancient ancenstor14
8154025003Language Divergence1 language formed into 2.15
8154025004Language Convergence2 languages collapsing into 1.16
8154025005Renfrew'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.17
8154025006Conquest TheoryTHEORY said that early Pro-Indo-Eurpean speakers spread West by horseback, overpowering, beginning diffusion snd differentiation of the Indo-European tongues.18
8154025007Dispersal TheoryTHEORY said Indo-Eupopean first moved East to SouthWest asia -> Caspian Sea -> Russian-Ukraine Plains -> Balkans. Another part said it moved west.19
8154025008Romance LanguagesFrench, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portugese20
8154025009Germanic LanguagesEnglish, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish21
8154025010Slavanic LanguagesRussian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian.22
8154025011Lingua FrancaAncient language in the Mediterranean ports usually for trading and commerce23
8154025012Pidgin LanguageWhere 2 or more languages come. Part of each of them combine into a simplified structure and vocabulary.24
8154025013Creole LanguageBegan as a Pidgin language, but later adopted as mother tongue by the people of the mother tongue land.25
8154025014Monolingual StatesCountries with one language spoken.26
8154025015Multilingual StatesCountries with more than one language spoken.27
8154025016Official LanguageMultilingual countries have language chosen by an educated, powerful elite, usually the language is spoken in Courts and in the government.28
8154025017Global LanguageLanguage most commonly used around the world. Basis of many speakers or trade prevelance.29
8154025018PlaceUniqueness of a location.30
8154025019ToponymPLACE name31

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