AP Human Geography- Chapter 5 (Language) Flashcards
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| 7649697970 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. | 0 | |
| 7649708159 | Sino-Tibetan Languages | Sinitic Branch- Mandarin, Wu, areas of China and Taiwan, Mandarin is the most used language in China Other Asian Language Families- Tai Kadai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, uses logograms |  | 1 |
| 7649752438 | Indo European Languages | Germanic Branch- English and German Indo Iranian- Hindu, Persian, Pashto, Kurdish Balto Slavic- Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusan, Polish |  | 2 |
| 7649782649 | Creole | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | 3 | |
| 7649794040 | Pidgin | 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. | 4 | |
| 7649820571 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 5 | |
| 7649831174 | Extinct Languages | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer practiced. | 6 | |
| 7649831175 | Revived Languages | A language that has experienced near or complete extinction as either a spoken or written language, has been intentionally revived and has regained some of its former status. | 7 | |
| 7650156413 | Denglish | Combination of English and German | 8 | |
| 7650157936 | Ebonics | A dialect spoken by some African Americans | 9 | |
| 7650161332 | Franglais | Combination of French and English | 10 | |
| 7650164281 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | 11 | |
| 7650165780 | Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. | 12 | |
| 7650165781 | 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 with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family. | 13 | |
| 7650167595 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before common history. | 14 | |
| 7650167596 | 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. | 15 | |
| 7650170381 | Spanglish | The combination of English and Spanish | 16 | |
| 7650170547 | Standard Language | The form of language used for official government business, education, and mass communication. | 17 | |
| 7661975342 | (F)erris (B)ueller (G)ets a (L)azy (D)ay | Family, Branch, Group, Language, Dialect | 18 |