AP Human Language Flashcards
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| 7990913996 | Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family. | 0 | |
| 7990935721 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 1 | |
| 7990944043 | 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. | 2 | |
| 7990948929 | Language | a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | 3 | |
| 7990953622 | Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. | 4 | |
| 7990958649 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | 5 | |
| 7990967236 | Indo-European Family | a family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects,[1] including most major languages of Europe, Iran, and northern India, and historically also predominant in Anatolia and Central Asia. | 6 | |
| 7990981467 | Creole | A language that mixes colonizer's language with an indigenous language | 7 | |
| 7990984292 | Dialect | local or regional characteristics of a language | 8 | |
| 7990991747 | Linga Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 9 | |
| 7990995699 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 10 | |
| 7991001773 | Oral Tradition | Stories passed down through generations by word of mouth. | 11 | |
| 7991019248 | Pidgin Language | mix of grammar and words of a lingua franca and a local language | 12 | |
| 7991021828 | Sino-Tibetan Family | This language family is the most important Asian language family (Mandarin), and covers nearly all of Southeastern Asia and most of China | 13 | |
| 7991029187 | Standard Language | a language that is published, widely distributed, and purposefully taught | 14 | |
| 7991042153 | Toponym | place names | 15 | |
| 7991047427 | Niger-Congo Family | A language family which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa, including Swahili, Yoruba, and Zulu. Largest language family in Africa. | 16 | |
| 7991061284 | Endangered Language | languages of the world that are in their final generation of speakers, they are close to becoming extinct | 17 |