AP Human Geo Language Flashcards
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| 5439290273 | Accent | The manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world | 0 | |
| 5439290274 | Anatolian hypothesis | The proto-Indo-European language peacefully spread through the innovation of agriculture | 1 | |
| 5439290275 | Creole | A language that results from the mixing of colonizers language with the indigenous language of people being dominated | 2 | |
| 5439290276 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language, distinguished by vocabulary spelling an pronunciation | 3 | |
| 5439290277 | Extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used | 4 | |
| 5439290278 | Ideogram | The systems of writing used in China an other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or symbol rather than a sound as is the case with letters in englicy | 5 | |
| 5439290280 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different languages sage predominate | 6 | |
| 5439290281 | Isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family | 7 | |
| 5439290282 | Kurgan hypothesis | The Proto-indo-European language diffused from modern day Ukrainian though conquest | 8 | |
| 5439290283 | Language | A system of communications through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have a meaning | 9 | |
| 5439290284 | Language branch | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | 10 | |
| 5439290285 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 11 | |
| 5439290286 | Language group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relativity recent past and display relativity few differences in grammar and vocab | 12 | |
| 5439290287 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native language | 13 | |
| 5439290288 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken | 14 | |
| 5439290289 | Mono-, bi-, multi-linguality | Amount of languages a person can speak | 15 | |
| 5439290290 | National language | Most common language used in the nation language with the widest distribution and speakers | 16 | |
| 5439290291 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 17 | |
| 5439290292 | Orthography | The study of where languages are located | 18 | |
| 5439290293 | Pidgin | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua Franca used for communications among speaking of two different language | 19 | |
| 5439290294 | Polyglot | A speaker of many languages | 20 | |
| 5439290295 | Slang | A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of short lived comings and figures ofnspeech | 21 | |
| 5439290296 | Standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education and mass communication | 22 | |
| 5439290297 | Syntax | Arrangement of words in Phrases and | 23 | |
| 5439290298 | Toponym | The name by which a geographical place is known | 24 | |
| 5439290299 | Trade language | A language used between native speakers and speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate with each other so they can trade | 25 | |
| 5439290300 | Vernacular | The everyday speech of the people as distinguished from literary language | 26 | |
| 5439290301 | Vocabulary | The body of words used in a particular language | 27 |