AP HUMAN- Unit 3 Language Flashcards

5580166592	Language	a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people who have the same meaning	0
5580169270	Dialect	a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation	1
5580171685	Language Family	a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history	2
5580174001	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	3
5580180037	Lingua Franca	A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages	4
5580186956	Official Language	The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents	5
5580188829	Isogloss	a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs, such boundary is rarely a simple line	6
5580193487	Language Subfamily	Commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent	7
5580195540	Creole Language	a pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language of a group of people	8
5580197176	Pidgin Language	When people speaking two or more different languages are in contact with each other and they combine parts of their languages in a simplified structure and vocabulary	9
5580198954	Monolingual States	countries in which only one language is spoken there	10
5580202468	Toponym	a place name	11