Chapter 6 about language in the AP Human Geography book.
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| 8154024988 | Language | Set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols used for communication. | 0 | |
| 8154024989 | Culture | Ralph Linton - Total knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared by society members. | 1 | |
| 8154024990 | 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 | |
| 8154024991 | Dialect | Variant of a language (Pronounciation, grammer, and vocabulary). | 3 | |
| 8154024992 | Isogloss | Geogrpahic boundary where linguist reatures occur. | 4 | |
| 8154024993 | Mutual Intelligibility | Two people understand each other when speaking. | 5 | |
| 8154024994 | Dialect Chains | Set of contigious dielcts where the one near each other at any place in the chain arw most closely related. | 6 | |
| 8154024995 | Language Family | Grouos of languages with shard, but slightly distant origin. | 7 | |
| 8154024996 | Subfamilies | Divisions within a family; commolities more definite. | 8 | |
| 8154024997 | Sound Shift | Slight word change in language within the subfamilies and language family from present time, backward to its origin. | 9 | |
| 8154024998 | Proto Indo-European | Ancestral Indo-european | 10 | |
| 8154024999 | Backward Reconstruction | Tracking Sound shifts and hardening of consonants "backwards" to the original language. | 11 | |
| 8154025000 | Extinct language | language without any native speakers. | 12 | |
| 8154025001 | Deep reconstruction | Recreate language that preceded it. | 13 | |
| 8154025002 | Nostratic | Proto Indo-European ancient ancenstor | 14 | |
| 8154025003 | Language Divergence | 1 language formed into 2. | 15 | |
| 8154025004 | Language Convergence | 2 languages collapsing into 1. | 16 | |
| 8154025005 | 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. | 17 | |
| 8154025006 | Conquest Theory | THEORY said that early Pro-Indo-Eurpean speakers spread West by horseback, overpowering, beginning diffusion snd differentiation of the Indo-European tongues. | 18 | |
| 8154025007 | Dispersal Theory | THEORY said Indo-Eupopean first moved East to SouthWest asia -> Caspian Sea -> Russian-Ukraine Plains -> Balkans. Another part said it moved west. | 19 | |
| 8154025008 | Romance Languages | French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portugese | 20 | |
| 8154025009 | Germanic Languages | English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish | 21 | |
| 8154025010 | Slavanic Languages | Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian. | 22 | |
| 8154025011 | Lingua Franca | Ancient language in the Mediterranean ports usually for trading and commerce | 23 | |
| 8154025012 | Pidgin Language | Where 2 or more languages come. Part of each of them combine into a simplified structure and vocabulary. | 24 | |
| 8154025013 | Creole Language | Began as a Pidgin language, but later adopted as mother tongue by the people of the mother tongue land. | 25 | |
| 8154025014 | Monolingual States | Countries with one language spoken. | 26 | |
| 8154025015 | Multilingual States | Countries with more than one language spoken. | 27 | |
| 8154025016 | Official Language | Multilingual countries have language chosen by an educated, powerful elite, usually the language is spoken in Courts and in the government. | 28 | |
| 8154025017 | Global Language | Language most commonly used around the world. Basis of many speakers or trade prevelance. | 29 | |
| 8154025018 | Place | Uniqueness of a location. | 30 | |
| 8154025019 | Toponym | PLACE name | 31 |
