ap geography Language Flashcards

3218623597	A literary tradition is	the written form of a language	0
3218626997	Language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers is	Chinese	1
3218635074	------is to Canada as -------- is to the US	French, Spanish	2
3218637816	A form of a language spoken in a local area is a	dialect	3
3218641587	What is not true about the English Language	It is an isogloss	4
3218645934	Which of the following is the primary reason that English is used as a dominant global language today	global economy	5
3218649232	Which GERMANIC tribe did not invaded England	Normans (They did invade England, but they are not a Germanic tribe)	6
3218654591	Both the Angles and the Normans contributed to development of the English language because they	Invaded England	7
3218663884	English is the most important language in North America because	The diffusion of English colonies	8
3218668278	The first speakers of the language that evolved into English were	Denmark	9
3218670919	Dialects developed within England because	Different Germanic invaders settled in different reigions	10
3218675788	British and American English differ in all but	alphabet	11
3218678674	Which Immigrants to the American colonies had the most diverse backround	Middle Atlantic	12
3218679820	An isogloss is	a line on a dialect map marking boundary's between linguistic features	13
3218686238	When people who speak a given language migrate to a different location and become isolated what happens?	The language involves into a new language	14
3218693485	The main difference between languages in the same family branch group is?	How recently they were the same language	15
3218702036	A group of languages that share a common origin, but have evolved into individual languages.	Language Branch	16
3218714128	Languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history are part of the same	Language Family	17
3218716242	2nd largest language family	Sino-Tibetan	18
3218720176	Language spoken by common people and soldiers around the Roman Empire	Vulgar language	19
3218722179	Most widely spoken language in Brazil	Portugese	20
3218736771	What is a creolized language	A mix of indigenous and colonial languages	21
3218739101	Widley spoken Indo European language	English	22
3218746852	What are the four most frequently spoken branches of Indo European	Balto-Slavic, Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Romance	23
3218752722	What are the two most important languages in South America	Portugese and Spanish	24
3218755155	Russian is part of which branch	Balto-Slavic	25
3218756955	Indo European language is spoken in	Bulgaria	26
3218761767	What are the two largest language families	Sino tibetan and indo european	27
3218765910	Every european country is dominated by Indo-European speakers except	Finland, Estonia, and Hungary	28
3218770281	English is part of which language group	West Germanic	29
3218771675	English is part of which language branch	Germanic	30
3218772665	English is part of which language family	Indo-European	31
3218775402	Which Germanic branch is extinct	East Germanic	32
3218779458	Language family including all Chinese languages	Sino-Tibetan	33
3218781598	Chinese is written in the form of	ideograms	34
3218792096	Dominate language family is Sub Saharan Africa	Niger-Congo	35
3218793195	Hebrew is which type of language	a revived language	36
3218795451	Flemings and walloons live in	Belgium	37
3218797321	What is a lingua franca	A language that is mutually understood by people who have different native languages	38
3218799593	Franglais is	the use of English in the French language	39