AP Human Geo Language Flashcards

4342868505	Creole	A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.	0
4342868506	Dialect	A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation	1
4342868507	Ebonics	Dialect spoken by some African Americans.	2
4342868508	Extinct Language	A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.	3
4342868509	Franglais	A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language	4
4342868510	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.	5
4342868511	Isogloss	A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.	6
4342868512	Isolated Language	A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family	7
4342868513	Language	A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.	8
4342868514	Language Branch	a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago	9
4342868515	Language Family	A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.	10
4342868516	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.	11
4342868517	Lingua Franca	A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages	12
4342868518	Literary tradition	A language that is written as well as spoken	13
4342868519	Official language	The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.	14
4342868520	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.	15
4342868521	Spanglish	Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans.	16
4342868522	Standard language	The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.	17
4342868523	Vulgar Latin	A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.	18
4342868524	hierarchical diffusion	A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.	19
4342868525	Most numerous language speakers on earth:	Mandarin Chinese speakers	20
4342868526	Second most numerous speakers on earth:	Spanish speakers	21
4342868527	Third most numerous speakers on earth:	English speakers	22
4342868528	Fourth most numerous speakers on earth:	Arabic speakers	23
4342868529	Fifth most numerous speakers on earth:	Hindi speakers	24
4342868530	Accent	A way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker.	25
4342868531	Esperanto	A made-up Latin-based language, which its European proponents in the early twentieth century hoped would become a global language	26
4342868532	Orthography	The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.	27
4342868533	Pidgin	when two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary	28
4342868534	Trade Language	A language used by speakers of a different native language for communication in commercial trade	29
4342868535	Vernacular	Everyday language of ordinary people	30
4342868536	Bilingual	Able to speak two languages	31
4342868537	Multilingual	able to speak several languages	32