AP Human Geography-language Flashcards
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| 6022795120 | How do languages evolve | Isolation and Time- big tribe splits into two, the dialects eventually gain their own characteristics after being influenced by factors making it its own language | 0 | |
| 6022795121 | How to figure out if languages have same family | Grammar, syntax, cognates, patterns, similar words | 1 | |
| 6022795122 | Slang | Very specific, short lived, words that are specific to a group, no grammar | 2 | |
| 6022795123 | Difference between language and dialect | Language has government and army, dialects do not. Both have grammar | 3 | |
| 6022795124 | Dialect | A variation of a language, changes in pronunciation, new words, emphasis, can split off to other languages with time and isolation | 4 | |
| 6022795125 | Pidgen | A grammatically simplified form of a language used for communication between people not sharing a common language. - have limited vocab - not native languages - learning a few words from a language to conduct business | 5 | |
| 6022795126 | Creole | Stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages - "spanglish" - a complete language used in a community and acquired by children as their native language | 6 | |
| 6022795127 | Language family | Trunk of the language | 7 | |
| 6022795128 | Language branch | Branches of the language family | 8 | |
| 6022795129 | Language group | The smallest sections that come off of the branches | 9 | |
| 6022795130 | Official languages | The language spoken in government and government forms are in that language | 10 | |
| 6022795131 | Language families (ones that we are studying) | Indo-European: -49.5% of world languages -Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages -Indo-Iranian languages as well (Iranian and Indic) Sino-Tibetian: -20.1% of world languages -Many people belong to this group because of geographical features Niger-Congo: -Oldest because it is so diverse -Most linguistically diverse -6.9% of world languages | 11 | |
| 6032399143 | Atkinson's Theory | -Language moved with people -Less variaton=newer language -African languages are oldest because they have the most phenomes and all languages come from Africa | 12 | |
| 6032438714 | Sedentary Farmer Theory (Colin Renfrew) | -Language started 8000 yrs ago in central asia -Through agriculture, Indo-European languages spread -Indo-European languages are dominant because of numbers and prosperity in agriculture -Relocation Diffusion | 13 | |
| 6032469887 | Nomadic Warrior Theory (Marija Gimbutas) | -Language started 6300 yrs ago in Russia, Kazakhstan -Language spread through conquest and military superiority -Hierarchical diffusion | 14 |