AP Language Flashcards
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| 4203402121 | Jutes | N. Denmark | 0 | |
| 4203402122 | Angles | S. Denmark | 1 | |
| 4203404309 | Saxons | NW Germany | 2 | |
| 4203405670 | Viking | Norway | 3 | |
| 4203407014 | Normans | Normandy | 4 | |
| 4203410434 | French | official language of British isles during 300 year Norman rule | 5 | |
| 4203414050 | relocation | type of diffusion associated with English lang | 6 | |
| 4203416813 | British imperialism/colonialism | who spread the english language | 7 | |
| 4203419548 | dialect | regional variation of a language | 8 | |
| 4203423255 | spelling, vocabulary, pronounciation | 3 ways dialect is distinct | 9 | |
| 4203425166 | BRP | British Received Pronunciation | 10 | |
| 4203432323 | British received pronunciation | Upper class British in London speak it recognized as most formal | 11 | |
| 4203438702 | isogloss | fuzzy geographic boundary of a word's use | 12 | |
| 4203450181 | celts | original occupants of British isles | 13 | |
| 4203453194 | official language | legal or lawful language adopted by a country for business, reports, signs, money, stamps | 14 | |
| 4203474742 | language | system of communication | 15 | |
| 4203476294 | orthography | proper writing according to standard language | 16 | |
| 4203477055 | literary tradition | written language | 17 | |
| 4203562645 | language family | a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed before recorded history. | 18 | |
| 4203562646 | language branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago. | 19 | |
| 4203564558 | 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. | 20 | |
| 4203569555 | Proto Indo European Language | theorized language relating to indo iranian, balto slavic, germanic, and romance languages | 21 | |
| 4203575251 | Kurgan hypothesis | nomadic herders that conquered much of Europe and SE Asia in 3500-2500 BCE | 22 | |
| 4203582732 | Anatolian Hypothesis | People living 2000 years before Kurgans and their language spread via agricultural practices not conquest | 23 | |
| 4203591992 | Indo European | 48% most spoken language family | 24 | |
| 4203593184 | Sino Tibetan | 26% second most spoken | 25 | |
| 4203595499 | Afro Asiatic | 6% third most spoken | 26 | |
| 4203597252 | Austronesian | 5% fourth most spoken language | 27 | |
| 4203599411 | ideograms | symbols representing concepts/ideas rather than a letter/sound from Chinese language | 28 | |
| 4203603929 | one | How many of Japan's alphabets came from China? | 29 | |
| 4203606285 | English | most spoken language worldwide | 30 | |
| 4203607056 | Mandarin | #1 native learned language | 31 | |
| 4203616361 | Nigeria and Former Soviet States | 2 areas where language is centrifugal | 32 | |
| 4203621926 | Walloons | french | 33 | |
| 4203621927 | Flanders | flemish | 34 | |
| 4203625235 | Lagos | Where was Nigeria's capital? | 35 | |
| 4203626113 | Yoruban | Where is Nigeria's capital? | 36 | |
| 4203628126 | Swahili | most spoken language in Niger congo | 37 | |
| 4203629480 | mandarin | sino tibetan (china) | 38 | |
| 4203630656 | hindi | indo european (india) | 39 | |
| 4203631596 | Pashtuo | indo european (afghanistan) | 40 | |
| 4203633995 | Turkish | Altaic (Turkey) | 41 | |
| 4203635874 | mongolian | Altaic- Mongolia | 42 | |
| 4203637517 | Swahili | Niger congo (tanzania) | 43 | |
| 4203639745 | Burmese | Sino tibetan (Burma) | 44 | |
| 4203641248 | Javanese | Austronesian (Indonesia) | 45 | |
| 4203643170 | Russian | Indo European (russia) | 46 | |
| 4203644233 | Finnish | uralic (finland) | 47 | |
| 4203646636 | Farsi | indo european (iran) | 48 | |
| 4203648260 | Hebrew | afro asiatic (israel) | 49 | |
| 4203650002 | yoruba | niger congo (nigeria) | 50 | |
| 4203652843 | Kazakh | Altaic (kazakhstan) | 51 | |
| 4203654686 | zulu | niger congo (south africa) | 52 | |
| 4203657715 | Hungarian | Uralic (hungary) | 53 | |
| 4203658952 | Serbian | Indo european (serbia) | 54 | |
| 4203661097 | Arabic | Afroasiatic (libya) | 55 | |
| 4203666037 | Tamil | dravidian (sri lanka) | 56 | |
| 4203668876 | Urdu | Indo european (pakistan) | 57 | |
| 4203683576 | thai | sino tibetan (thailand) | 58 | |
| 4203683578 | nigeria | yoruba and igbo and hausa | 59 | |
| 4203683577 | malay | malaysia | 60 | |
| 4203877438 | ebonics | dialect spoken by many blacks who migrated from the south to large northern cities | 61 | |
| 4203881563 | pidgin language | simplified version of lingua franca | 62 |