AP Human Geography: Language Flashcards
Language
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| 7897703305 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. |  | 0 |
| 7897703306 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. |  | 1 |
| 7897703307 | logogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An |  | 2 |
| 7897703308 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. |  | 3 |
| 7897703309 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language. |  | 4 |
| 7897703310 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. |  | 5 |
| 7897703311 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. |  | 6 |
| 7897703312 | Language Group | A Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. |  | 7 |
| 7897703313 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |  | 8 |
| 7897703316 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |  | 9 |
| 7897703317 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 10 | |
| 7897703321 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |  | 11 |
| 7897703322 | Pidgin Language | A Form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages. |  | 12 |
| 7897703323 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |  | 13 |
| 7897703326 | Creole | a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage |  | 14 |