AP Human, Language Flashcards
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| 7913355528 | Creolized language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 0 | |
| 7913355529 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | 1 | |
| 7913355530 | Extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used | 2 | |
| 7913355531 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different native languages are found | 3 | |
| 7913355532 | Isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and is therefore not attached to any language family | 4 | |
| 7913355533 | Language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago; the branches in the language tree | 5 | |
| 7913355534 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history; the trunk of the language tree | 6 | |
| 7913355535 | Language group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display few differences in grammar and vocabulary | 7 | |
| 7913355536 | Lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 8 | |
| 7913355537 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken | 9 | |
| 7913355538 | Logogram | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound | 10 | |
| 7913355539 | Official language | The language that is adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 11 | |
| 7913355540 | Pidgin language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a Lingua Franca; used for communication among speakers of two different languages | 12 | |
| 7913355541 | Indo-European | The largest language family | 13 | |
| 7913355542 | Sino-Tibetan | The second largest language family | 14 | |
| 7913355543 | 6,909 | According to the textbook, how many languages are spoken? | 15 | |
| 7913355544 | Mandarin | The most widely spoken native language | 16 | |
| 7913355545 | Spanish | Second most spoken native language in the world | 17 | |
| 7913355546 | English | 3rd most spoken native language | 18 | |
| 7913355547 | Arabic | 4th most spoken native language | 19 | |
| 7913355548 | Hindi | 5th most spoken native language | 20 | |
| 7913355549 | Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, and Romance | The top 4 most common native languages in the Indo-European language family | 21 | |
| 7913355550 | North and West | What is the Germanic branch separated into? | 22 | |
| 7913355551 | English and German | What two languages are spoken in the West Germanic branch? | 23 | |
| 7913355552 | Indo-Iranian | Largest branch in the Indo-European family | 24 | |
| 7913355553 | Russification | the process of forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the Russian empire | 25 | |
| 7913355554 | East, west, and south | What is the Balto-Slavic branch broken into? | 26 | |
| 7913355555 | Russian | What is spoken in the East Slavic group of the Balto-Slavic branch | 27 | |
| 7913355556 | Polish, Czech, and Slovak | What 3 languages are spoken in the West Slavic part of the Baltimore-Slavic branch | 28 | |
| 7913355557 | Serb-Croation | What language is spoken in the South Slavic part of the Balto-Slavic group | 29 | |
| 7913355558 | Romance | What branch was spread by the Roman Empire? | 30 | |
| 7913355559 | Mandarin | The most common native language in the Sino-Tibetan family | 31 | |
| 7913355560 | Arabic | The most common native language in the Afro-Asiatic family | 32 | |
| 7913355561 | Colonization and Hierarchical diffusion | How English diffused | 33 | |
| 7913355562 | Wanted to be different and isolation | What is 2 reasons why British English and American English different? | 34 | |
| 7913355563 | Vocabulary, Spelling, Pronunciation | What 3 things were changed from British English to American English? | 35 | |
| 7913355564 | Tense | Is Belgium peaceful or tense right now? | 36 | |
| 7913355565 | Peaceful | Is Switzerland peaceful or tense right now? | 37 | |
| 7913355566 | North and South | How is Belgium split up | 38 | |
| 7913355567 | Dutch and French | What two languages are spoken in Belgium? | 39 | |
| 7913355568 | German, French, Italian, Romansh | What 4 languages are spoken in Switzerland? | 40 | |
| 7913355569 | Localized government | A government that caters to the specific needs of its people | 41 | |
| 7913355570 | To preserve their language, technology, tourism, and government | What are 4 reasons some minority languages survive despite globalization? | 42 | |
| 7913355571 | Revived language | an extinct language that is brought back | 43 |