AP Human Geography Languages Flashcards
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| 4938289030 | Creolized language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 0 | |
| 4938289031 | Denglish | A combination of German and English | 1 | |
| 4938289032 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | 2 | |
| 4938289033 | Ebonics | A dialect spoken by some African Americans | 3 | |
| 4938289034 | Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used | 4 | |
| 4938289035 | Franglais | A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language | 5 | |
| 4938289036 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | 6 | |
| 4938289037 | Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family | 7 | |
| 4938289038 | Language | A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning | 8 | |
| 4938289039 | Language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | 9 | |
| 4938289040 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded time | 10 | |
| 4938289041 | 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 | 11 | |
| 4938289042 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 12 | |
| 4938289043 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken | 13 | |
| 4938289044 | Logogram | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound | 14 | |
| 4938289045 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the governed for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 15 | |
| 4938289046 | 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 | 16 | |
| 4938289047 | Received Pronunciation | The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and how considered standard in the United Kingdom | 17 | |
| 4938289048 | Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans | 18 | |
| 4938289049 | Standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications | 19 | |
| 4938289050 | Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents | 20 | |
| 4938289051 | Accent | The manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world | 21 | |
| 4938289052 | Esperanto | A made-up Latin-based language,which it's European proponents in the early twentieth century hoped would become a global language | 22 | |
| 4938289053 | Ideogram | Symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word | 23 | |
| 4938289054 | Mono lingually | Speaking one language | 24 | |
| 4938289055 | Bi lingually | Speaking two languages | 25 | |
| 4938289056 | Multi lingually | Speaking several languages | 26 | |
| 4938289057 | Orthography | The study of where languages are found/ located | 27 | |
| 4938289058 | Toponym | The name of a given place | 28 | |
| 4938289059 | Trade language | A language used between native speakers if different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other | 29 | |
| 4938289060 | Vernacular | A language or dialect spoken by the common people of a region | 30 |