Ap Geography Language Flashcards
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8658646442 | Accent | 0 | ||
8658647112 | Anatolian Hypothesis | 1 | ||
8658647113 | Creole | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with indigenous languag of people being dominated | 2 | |
8658647954 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary,spelling, and pronunciation | 3 | |
8658647962 | Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used | 4 | |
8658651216 | Ideogram | System of writing used in china and other east asian countries which each symbol represents idea or concept | 5 | |
8658651884 | Indo European | 6 | ||
8658652911 | Nostratic Hypothesis | 7 | ||
8658653694 | Isogloss | A boundary that seperates regions in which in different languages usages predominate | 8 | |
8658654826 | Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and there fore not attached to any language family | 9 | |
8658656515 | Kurgan Hypothesis | 10 | ||
8658656554 | Language | Communication through use of speech , collection of sounds understood by a group to have the same meaning | 11 | |
8658657607 | Language branch | Collection of languages related to common ancestor that excisted | 12 | |
8658658396 | Language family | A collection of languages related to eachother. Through a common ancestor that exsisted long before record history | 13 | |
8658659219 | Language group | Langauages within a branch that share a common orgin in relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammer and vocabularu | 14 | |
8658659738 | Lingua Franca | A langiage mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 15 | |
8658660359 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken | 16 | |
8658661713 | Mono bi multi linguality | 17 | ||
8658662735 | National language | 18 | ||
8658663785 | Official Language | Language adopted for use by government for conduct if business and publication of documents | 19 | |
8658665060 | Orthography | 20 | ||
8658665860 | Pidgin | Form of speech that adopts simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca | 21 | |
8658666728 | Polyglot | 22 | ||
8658667478 | Slang | 23 | ||
8658667522 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government buisness,education, and mass communications | 24 | |
8658669818 | Syntax | 25 | ||
8658669819 | Toponym | The name goven to a portion of earths surface | 26 | |
8658671259 | Trade Language | 27 | ||
8658671296 | Vernacular | An area that people believe as part of their cultural identity | 28 | |
8658678395 | Vocabulary | 29 |