AP Human Geography Language Flashcards

4057459531	official language	The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.	0
4057459532	dialect	A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.	1
4057460572	standard language	The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.	2
4057460573	isogloss	A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.	3
4057460574	language family	A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.	4
4057461594	language branch	A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.	5
4057461595	creole language	A language that results from the mixing of a language that results form the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.	6
4057462479	extinct languages	A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.	7
4057462480	lingua franca	A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.	8
4057463729	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.	9
4057484835	placelessness	Defined by geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next. Different cultural landscapes become similar to one another and have nothing to differentiate them.	10