language AP human Flashcards
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8400131298 | literary tradition | system of written communication | 0 | |
8400138316 | language family | collection of language related through a common ancestral language | 1 | |
8400147829 | language branch | collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language | 2 | |
8400158610 | language group | collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively of the recent past and similar grammar and vocab | 3 | |
8400263331 | families braches groups | what are languages organized into? | 4 | |
8400281748 | indo-European and Sino-Tibetan 2/3 of the world | what are the two largest language families? | 5 | |
8400299684 | Indo-European | this language family is predominate in Europe, North America, South Asia, and Latin America | 6 | |
8400322180 | Sino-Tibetan | this language family is predominate in the republic of china and several other southeastern countries | 7 | |
8400329238 | mandarin | what is the most used language in the world? | 8 | |
8400342099 | Afro-Asiatic and the Altaic | what are the two largest language families in Northwestern Africa, Central Asia, and Southwest Asia? | 9 | |
8400402989 | Arabian | what language to the Afro-Asiatic speak? | 10 | |
8400412388 | Turkish | what language do the Altaic speak? | 11 | |
8400416604 | Swahili | what is the language of the Niger Congo? | 12 | |
8400438629 | Germanic Branch Indo Iranian Branch Batoslavic branch Romance Branch | what are the distributions of the indo-European family? | 13 | |
8400473045 | North America and Northwestern Europe and they speak English | where is the Germanic branch located and what do they speak? | 14 | |
8400488674 | It is spoken in South asia | where is the Indo-Iranian branch located? | 15 | |
8400507131 | indic | what is the eastern group of Indo-Iranian? | 16 | |
8400514617 | Iranian | what is the western group of Indo-Iranian? | 17 | |
8400530214 | eastern Europe | where is the basto-slavic branch located? | 18 | |
8400541955 | Russia, Ukrainian, and Belarusian | where is the east Slavic group located? | 19 | |
8400555747 | Czech and the Poland | where is the west Slavic group located? | 20 | |
8400571215 | southwestern Europe and Latin America | where is the romance branch located? | 21 | |
8400584660 | Angles Jutes Saxons | what are the 3 Germanic tribes of which English has been diffused? | 22 | |
8400594744 | angles | Germanic tribe located in southern Denmark | 23 | |
8400601594 | jutes | Germanic tribe located in northern Denmark | 24 | |
8400610280 | Saxons | Germanic tribe located in northwestern Germany | 25 | |
8400625030 | Dialect | regional variation of a distinctive vocab, spelling, and pronunciation | 26 | |
8400656749 | isogloss | boundaries of where regional words are used can be mapped | 27 | |
8400673088 | Midlands Southeastern New England | what are the three different dialect regions | 28 | |
8400683008 | lingua franca | language of international communication | 29 | |
8400692309 | creolized language | a language that results in the mixing of languages | 30 | |
8400704572 | franglais | a term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language | 31 | |
8400727128 | official language | in multilingual countries the language selected to promote internal cohesion, usually the language of the courts and government | 32 | |
8400753602 | pidgin language | when 2 or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocab | 33 |