AP human geography- Language Flashcards
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| 5183898364 | language | system of communication through speech | 0 | |
| 5183898758 | dialect | language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and population | 1 | |
| 5183899612 | ideograms | each symbol represents an idea or concept | 2 | |
| 5183900629 | ebonics | dialect spoken by some african americans | 3 | |
| 5183901395 | literacy tradition | language that is written as well as spoken | 4 | |
| 5183902875 | isogloss | boundary tha separates regions in which different language usages predominate | 5 | |
| 5183907497 | lingua franca | common language used in trade | 6 | |
| 5183910744 | official language | language adopted by government for publication of documents | 7 | |
| 5183912499 | British received pronunciation | proper version of english spoken by upper-class britons in London | 8 | |
| 5183918476 | isolated language | language not related to or attached to any other language family | 9 | |
| 5183919952 | creolized language | created by mixing colonizers language with indigenous language | 10 | |
| 5183923258 | extinct language | language once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used | 11 | |
| 5183924400 | gothic | example of extinct language | 12 | |
| 5183925038 | revived language | language that has almost become extinct but has been revived and regained it status | 13 | |
| 5183926637 | hebrew | example of revived language | 14 | |
| 5183956817 | preserved language | preventing a language from becoming extinct, survival depends on political and military strength | 15 | |
| 5183959316 | basque, Icelandic | examples of isolated language | 16 | |
| 5183960237 | franglais | widespread use of english in the french language, combination of french and english | 17 | |
| 5183964566 | spanglish | combination of english and Spanish | 18 | |
| 5183965987 | denglish | the diffusion of english words into german, combination of german and english | 19 | |
| 5183969503 | Angles, Jutes, Saxons, and norman | the four tribes that invaded England and blended with celtic people to develop english language | 20 | |
| 5183972093 | colonization, migration | why is english distributed around the world | 21 | |
| 5183985770 | English, German, Flemish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | germanic languages | 22 | |
| 5184011424 | Nomadic Warrior theory | other name for kurgan theory | 23 | |
| 5184012353 | Marija Gimbutes | who developed kurgan theory | 24 | |
| 5184017061 | nomadic herders spread from caspian sea into europe and middle east looking to conquer land | what does kurgan theory say | 25 | |
| 5184019314 | farmers theory, sedentary farmers theory, agricultural theory | other names for anatolian theory | 26 | |
| 5184020256 | colin Renfrew | who developed anatalian theory | 27 | |
| 5184025347 | agricultural farmers spread from turkey to europe and asia, believed agriculture spread language | what does anatolin theory say | 28 | |
| 5184082353 | indic and iranian | two groups of indo iranian | 29 | |
| 5184083194 | hindi and urdu | most spoken in indic group | 30 | |
| 5184084172 | hindi and english | official language of india | 31 | |
| 5184085843 | persian, pashto, kurdish | most spoken iranian languages | 32 | |
| 5184087693 | india, pakistan, Bangladesh | indic countries | 33 | |
| 5184090571 | iran and neighboring southwest asia countries | iranian countries | 34 | |
| 5184094190 | east, west, and south | balto-slovik sections | 35 | |
| 5184097285 | russian | dominant language in east slavic | 36 | |
| 5184103798 | polish, czech, and slovac | dominant languages in west slovak | 37 | |
| 5184107921 | spanish, Portuguese, french, Italian, and romance | romance languages | 38 | |
| 5184386853 | they have no written record | why is it hard to document some languages | 39 | |
| 5184388036 | language family | collection of languages before recorded history | 40 | |
| 5184390112 | language branch | collection of languages from thousands of years ago | 41 | |
| 5184394610 | vulgar latin | term for latin spoken during the roman empire | 42 | |
| 5184399679 | single ancestor language of indo-european | what is implied by proto-indo-european | 43 | |
| 5184402004 | indo-european | most widely spoken language family | 44 | |
| 5184403843 | mandarine | most popular language in china | 45 | |
| 5184407436 | 473 | how many languages are considered nearly extinct | 46 | |
| 5184409494 | east-germanic group | what language group did gothic belong to | 47 | |
| 5184414203 | people who spoke it converted to another language because of political dominance and cultural preference | why did gothic become extinct | 48 | |
| 5184422619 | to unify the people together | why was hebrew chosen as the official language of Israel | 49 | |
| 5184427306 | they had to make new word for objects and inventions not present during biblical times | why was reviving the hebrew language difficult | 50 | |
| 5184433957 | its the language of international communication | why international people want to speak english | 51 | |
| 5184437773 | migration and conquest | diffusion of language in past | 52 | |
| 5184441771 | expansion diffusion - snowballing effect | diffusion of language now | 53 | |
| 5184446048 | diversity | what does isolation promote | 54 | |
| 5184448007 | doesn't have one | official language of us | 55 | |
| 5184449720 | celtics | first humans in england | 56 | |
| 5184450623 | angles, jutes, saxons | germanic tribes | 57 | |
| 5184453048 | norman tribes | came after germanic tribes | 58 | |
| 5184454570 | developed english | how did germanic tribes influence english | 59 | |
| 5184455756 | made more fancy words | how did norman tribes influence english | 60 | |
| 5184459174 | midwest say pop, south say soda | example of isogloss | 61 | |
| 5184460373 | standard language | proper way to speak a language | 62 | |
| 5184465298 | industry, spoke proper english | north during colonial times | 63 | |
| 5184467469 | agricultural, spoke improper english | south during colonial times | 64 | |
| 5184473781 | germanic, indo-iranian, balto-slavic, romance | most common branches of indo-european | 65 | |
| 5184486902 | albanian, amnion, greek, and celtic | less spoken branches of indo-european | 66 | |
| 5184501636 | latin | what are romance languages based on | 67 | |
| 5184516933 | creole | example of creolized language | 68 | |
| 5184522829 | kurgan theory and anatolin theory | two theories of origin for info-european | 69 | |
| 5184525171 | sino-tibetan | second largest language family | 70 | |
| 5184527341 | niger-congo | third largest language family | 71 | |
| 5184530924 | austro-thai and tibeto-burman | two language branches of sino-tibetan | 72 | |
| 5184533949 | korean and Japanese | have separate language families | 73 | |
| 5184540739 | Vietnamese | most spoken language of austro-asiatic | 74 | |
| 5184556370 | arabic and hebrew | language of afro-asiatic language family | 75 | |
| 5184568360 | altaic and uralic language families | other language families | 76 | |
| 5184572919 | khoisan language family | language uses clicking sounds | 77 | |
| 5184583036 | austronesian language family | languages that are islands of Oceana | 78 | |
| 5184590828 | as part of our cultural identity | why do we protect language | 79 | |
| 5184600103 | political and military power, economic power, humanitarian aid | what does the survival of a language depend on | 80 | |
| 5184607648 | belgium- radically divided by language north speak flemish south speak french | example of a multilingual state | 81 | |
| 5184616368 | pidgen language | very simplified version of language that people learn to communicate | 82 |