AP Human Geography: Language Flashcards

Language

7772261916	Dialect	A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group.	0
7772261917	Extinct Language	An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use.	1
7772261918	Ideogram	A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six)	2
7772261919	Isogloss	A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs.	3
7772261920	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.	4
7772261921	Language Branch	A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family.	5
7772261922	Language	The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.	6
7772261923	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.	7
7772261924	Language Family	A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history	8
7772261925	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.	9
7772261926	Sino-Tibetan Language Family	2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese	10
7772261927	Lingua Franca	A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages	11
7772261928	Literary Tradition	A Language that is written as well as spoken	12
7772261929	Monolingual	The condition of being able to speak only a single language	13
7772261930	Bilingual	The ability to speak two languages	14
7772261931	Multilingual	The ability to speak multiple languages	15
7772261932	Official Language	The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.	16
7772261933	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.	17
7772261934	Standard Language	The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.	18
7772261935	Trade Language	A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade.	19
7772261936	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.	20
7772261937	Creole	a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage	21
7772261938	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.	22
7772261939	Franglais	a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English.	23
7772261940	Ebonics	American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English	24
7772261941	Spanglish	a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions.	25
7772261942	Institutional Language	Professional language (not slang)	26
7772261947	Vulgar Latin	Informal Latin spoken by common folk (farmers, soldiers, etc.) in classical times	27