AP Human Geography: Chapter 6: Language Flashcards
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| 3339640805 | Literary Tradition | the written form of a language | 0 | |
| 3339640806 | Dialet | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | 1 | |
| 3339642585 | Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family. Example: Germanic Branch of Indo-European | 2 | |
| 3339642586 | Language Group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin | 3 | |
| 3339646979 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. Example: Indo-European Family | 4 | |
| 3339652010 | List the Romance languages | Spanish, French, Italian, Romanish | 5 | |
| 3339655829 | Creole | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. Example: French Creole in Haiti--Very different than the French spoken in France | 6 | |
| 3339661727 | Official languages in Switzerland | Italian, Romanish, German, French | 7 | |
| 3339668622 | Language Family encompassing languages in People's Republic of China | Sino-Tibetan | 8 | |
| 3339670928 | Ideograms | Chinese is written in the form of this | 9 | |
| 3339676410 | Most important language family in sub-Saharan Africa | Niger-Congo | 10 | |
| 3339678723 | Lingua Franca | a language that is mutually understood by people who have different native languages | 11 | |
| 3339682880 | Isogloss | a geographical word usage boundary | 12 | |
| 3339750330 | Pidgin | 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. | 13 |