Language AP Human Geography Flashcards

11812981425	FBGLD	Family, Branch, Group, Language, Dialect	0
11812987338	How many languages may be lost by the end of the century?	50%	1
11812996225	How many languages are spoken in the world today?	Around 7,000	2
11813003160	Ideograms	The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English.	3
11813011584	Multilingual state	Countries in which more than one language is spoken	4
11813023865	Homogenous	Made up of ethically similar people.	5
11813029448	Official Language	A language designated by law to be the language of government.	6
11813036971	Swahili	A Bantu language with Arabic words, spoken along the east African coast	7
11813044531	Creole/Creolized Language	Mixing of colonizer's language with the indigenous language.	8
11813056522	Pidgin language	A simplified grammar and vocab used for communication when speakers speak two different languages.	9
11813068973	Slang	Informal word usage by a segment of the population.	10
11813076056	Lingua Franca	A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.	11
11813086438	Adages	Sayings that attempt to express a truth about life	12
11813093656	Dialect	Regional variety of language.	13
11813098220	Isogloss	A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.	14
11813109061	Romance languages	Languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese) that lie in the areas that were once controlled by the Roman Empire	15
11813119089	Indo-European Language Family	A large group of languages that might all have descended from a language spoken around 6,000 years ago.	16
11813129744	Language Tree	The relationship between languages, showing their origins and relationships to one another.	17
11813140042	Linguists	Scientists who study languages	18
11813153802	Sedentary Farmer Thesis	AKA Agriculture Theory. Existing 2,000 years before Kurgans, groups diffused slowly with their agricultural practices, diffusing the Indo-European language.	19
11813157837	Agriculture Theory	AKA Sedentary Farmer Thesis. Existing 2,000 years before Kurgans, groups diffused slowly with their agricultural practices, diffusing the Indo-European language.	20
11813182454	Kurgan Hearth Thesis	AKA Nomadic Warrior Thesis, Conquest Theory. Indo-European language spread from Kurgan people from Russia, conquering Europe and South Asia.	21
11813182455	Nomadic Warrior Thesis	AKA Kurgan Hearth Thesis, Conquest Theory. Indo-European language spread from Kurgan people from Russia, conquering Europe and South Asia.	22
11813182456	Conquest Theory	AKA Kurgan Hearth Thesis, Nomadic Warrior Thesis. Indo-European language spread from Kurgan people from Russia, conquering Europe and South Asia.	23
11813220506	Monolingual States	Contain speakers of only one language.	24
11813232986	Devolution	When a government allows power to lower levels of government.	25
11813237699	Celtic Languages	Languages spoken before the invasions of the Angels, Saxons, and Jutes.	26
11813248967	SPECIFIC type of toponym?	Provides the site specific name that was given a feature.	27
11813257600	GENERIC type of toponym?	Identifies the type of place.	28
11813264699	What are the 2 types of toponyms?	Generic, Specific	29
11813268210	Standard Language	Form of language used officially for government, business, education. etc.	30
11813275505	Vulgar Latin	Type of Latin spoken by the masses not the standard literary form.	31
11813283883	FRAMES	French, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, English and Spanish.	32
11813291465	Official UN Languages?	French, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, English and Spanish	33
11813311364	Distribution of language is a result of what 2 factors?	Interaction, Isolation	34
11813317565	Language Family	Languages related to each other through a common ancestor before recorded time.	35