Language chapter AP geo Flashcards
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| 6069005312 | Sino-Tibetan | People in china speak a language from | 0 | |
| 6069005313 | Dialect | A form of language spoken in a local area. Distinct vocab + pronunciation | 1 | |
| 6069005314 | Isogloss | Defined area with distinct word usage and pronounciation | 2 | |
| 6069005315 | Lingua Franca | A mutually understood and common trade language used by people of different native language | 3 | |
| 6069005316 | Niger-Congo | Most important and widely spoken language in sub-Saharan Africa is | 4 | |
| 6069005317 | Romance languages | Italian French English Romanian Spanish Portuguese | 5 | |
| 6069005318 | Second largest language family | Sino-Tibetan | 6 | |
| 6069005319 | Largest language family | Indo-European | 7 | |
| 6069005320 | Largest native spoken language | Madarin | 8 | |
| 6069005321 | Language family | Individual languages with common ancestor background. Split into branches | 9 | |
| 6069005322 | Language branches | group of language with common origin but evolved into different languages | 10 | |
| 6069005323 | Language groups | Individual languages within a language branch. | 11 | |
| 6069005324 | Language | System of communication | 12 | |
| 6069005325 | Ideograms | System of writing in China | 13 | |
| 6069005326 | Isolation = | Not a lot of change in the language | 14 | |
| 6069142074 | Three European people formed English | Celtics German tribes Norman's | 15 | |
| 6069142075 | German tribes | Angles jutes saxons | 16 | |
| 6069142076 | Standard language | For languages with multiple dialects. Used for gov business and edu | 17 | |
| 6069142077 | Western Iranian | Southwest Asia, Iran Arabic alphabet Persian, Kurdish | 18 | |
| 6069142078 | Eastern Indic | India and neighboring countries Hindi | 19 | |
| 6069142079 | Ethnologue | 438 languages in india | 20 | |
| 6069142080 | Hebrew | Revived to to Judaism | 21 | |
| 6069142081 | Switzerland | Successful multilingual country: French German Romanism Italian | 22 | |
| 6069142082 | Basque | Isolated preserved language | 23 | |
| 6069142083 | Icelandic | Norwegian language that hasn't changed over time | 24 | |
| 6069142084 | Balto-Slavic branch | Russian | 25 | |
| 6069142085 | Austrinesia | Indonesia, Madagascar | 26 | |
| 6069142086 | Afro- asiatic | North Africa Arabic, Hebrew | 27 | |
| 6069142087 | Khoisan | Clicking sounds | 28 |