8192518326 | Accent | A way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker. | 0 | |
8192518327 | Anatolian Hypothesis | The Proto-Indo-European language peacefully spread through the innovation of agriculture | 1 | |
8192518328 | Creole | a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages | 2 | |
8192518329 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 3 | |
8192518330 | extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 4 | |
8192518331 | ideogram | symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word | 5 | |
8192518332 | Indo-European | relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India. | 6 | |
8192518333 | Nostratic Hypothesis | hypothesized ancestral language of Proto-Indo-European, as well as other ancestral language families | 7 | |
8192518334 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | 8 | |
8192518335 | Isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family | 9 | |
8192518336 | Kurgan Hypothesis | Belief that Indo-Europeans spread from Central Asian conquerors who arrived on horseback.(kurgans) | 10 | |
8192518337 | Language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | 11 | |
8192518338 | Language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | 12 | |
8192518339 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 13 | |
8192518340 | 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 | 14 | |
8192518341 | Lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 15 | |
8192518342 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken | 16 | |
8192518343 | mono-linguality | Speaking only one language | 17 | |
8192518344 | bi-linguality | Speaking two languages | 18 | |
8192518345 | multi-linguality | Speaking several languages | 19 | |
8192518346 | National language | Most common language used in the nation: , language with the widest distribution and most speakers | 20 | |
8192518347 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 21 | |
8192518348 | Orthography | The conventional spelling system of a language | 22 | |
8192518349 | Pidgin | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers or two different languages | 23 | |
8192518350 | Polyglot | a speaker of many languages | 24 | |
8192518351 | Slang | newly coined words that are not yet a part of formal usage | 25 | |
8192518352 | Standard language | The form of language used for official government business, education, and mass communications | 26 | |
8192518353 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 27 | |
8192518354 | Toponym | The name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | 28 | |
8192518355 | trade language | a common language that emerges when countries trade with each other | 29 | |
8192518356 | Vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people | 30 | |
8192518357 | vocabulary | words used to communicate either a spoken or written message | 31 |
AP Human Geography Language Flashcards
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