AP Human Geography: Language Flashcards
Language
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| 8503965871 | Accent | A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. | 0 | |
| 8503965872 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. |  | 1 |
| 8503965873 | Esperanto | An artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages. |  | 2 |
| 8503965874 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. |  | 3 |
| 8503965875 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) |  | 4 |
| 8503965876 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. |  | 5 |
| 8503965877 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language. |  | 6 |
| 8503965878 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. |  | 7 |
| 8503965879 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. |  | 8 |
| 8503965880 | Language Group | A Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. |  | 9 |
| 8503965881 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |  | 10 |
| 8503965882 | Indo European language family | Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. |  | 11 |
| 8503965883 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese |  | 12 |
| 8503965884 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |  | 13 |
| 8503965885 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 14 | |
| 8503965886 | Monolingual | The condition of being able to speak only a single language |  | 15 |
| 8503965887 | Bilingual | The ability to speak two languages |  | 16 |
| 8503965888 | Multilingual | The ability to speak multiple languages |  | 17 |
| 8503965889 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |  | 18 |
| 8503965890 | Orthography | The conventional spelling system of a language. |  | 19 |
| 8503965891 | 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. |  | 20 |
| 8503965892 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |  | 21 |
| 8503965893 | Toponym | a place name or a word derived from the name of a place |  | 22 |
| 8503965894 | Trade Language | A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade. |  | 23 |
| 8503965895 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people. | 24 | |
| 8503965896 | Creole | a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage |  | 25 |
| 8503965897 | Denglish | The term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German. |  | 26 |
| 8503965898 | Franglais | a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English. |  | 27 |
| 8503965899 | Ebonics | American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English |  | 28 |
| 8503965900 | Spanglish | a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions. |  | 29 |