AP Human Geography-language Flashcards
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| 8202651419 | Official language | The language used by the government that is used in court, parliament, and administration | 0 | |
| 8202673571 | Dialect | The particular form of a language that is specific to a particular region or social group | 1 | |
| 8202685512 | Standard language | The language used for government business education, and mass communications | 2 | |
| 8202703231 | Isogloss | A line on a dialect map marking the boundary between two places with different languages | 3 | |
| 8202727383 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other by a common ancestor before recorded history | 4 | |
| 8209931894 | Language branch | A collection of language-related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive as language families. EX. Germanic branch-Indoeuropean | 5 | |
| 8202757019 | Creole language | A stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages | 6 | |
| 8209826440 | Extinct languages | A language that was once used among a community, but is no longer spoken | 7 | |
| 8209832193 | Lingua franca | A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native language is different | 8 | |
| 8210252536 | Pidgin language | A grammatically simplified means of communication which develops between groups that don't have a common language | 9 |