ap Language Flashcards

8343151187	Language	One of the oldest most geographically diverse and most complex cultural traits on earth	0
8343151188	Language family	A collection of many languages, all of which came from the same original tongue long ago, but have since about different characteristics	1
8343151189	Indo - European family	Language family containing the Germanic and romance languages that includes languages spoken by about 50% of the worlds people	2
8343151190	Sino - Tibetan family	Language area that spreads through most of south east Asia and China and is comprised of Chinese Burmese Tibetan Japanese and Korean	3
8343151191	Language groups	A set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics	4
8343151192	Romance languages	Any of the languages derived from Latin including Italian, Spanish, French, and Romanian.	5
8343151193	Dialects	Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary somewhat from parent form.	6
8343151194	Accents	varieties of language that differ solely in pronunciation	7
8343151195	Isoglosses	Geographical boundary lines where different linguistic features meet.	8
8343151196	pidgin	language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language	9
8343151197	Creole	A pidgin that evolves to the point that it becomes the primary language to the people who speak it.	10
8343151198	Esperanto	A constructed international auxiliary language incorporating aspects of numerous linguistic traditions to create or universal means of communication	11
8343151199	Lingua franca	And extremely simple language that combines aspects of two or more other, more complex languages usually used for a quick and efficient communication	12
8343151200	Official language	Language in which all government business occurs in a country.	13
8343151201	polyglot	A multi lingual state	14
8343151202	Language extinction	This occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people. Thousands of languages have become extinct over the eons since language for us developed, but the process of language extinction has accelerated greatly during the past 300 years	15
8343151203	Acculturation	The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.	16
8343151204	Cultural extinction	Obliteration of an entire culture by war, disease, acculturation, or a combination of the three.	17
8343151205	literacy	the ability to read and write	18
8343151206	Toponyms	place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features, and streams.	19