AP Language Flashcards
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| 8005076303 | mutual intelligibility | the ability of two people to understand each other when speaking | 0 | |
| 8005076304 | Isogloss (6.1) | A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs. | 1 | |
| 8005076305 | extinct language | language once used by people in daily activites but is no longer used | 2 | |
| 8005076306 | language convergence | the process of two languages merging together | 3 | |
| 8005076307 | monolingual states | countries in which only one language is spoken | 4 | |
| 8005076308 | Language fragmentation | Many languages spoken by a small group of people | 5 | |
| 8005076309 | Creole language | A language that develops from a pidgin language and is taught as a first language | 6 | |
| 8005076310 | pidgin language | language formed by combining parts of several different languages | 7 | |
| 8005076311 | Toponym | Place name | 8 | |
| 8005076312 | multilingual states | countries in which more than one language is spoken | 9 | |
| 8005076313 | backward reconstruction | tracks sound shifts and hardening of consonants back to the original language (deducing) | 10 | |
| 8005076314 | linguistic geography | the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features | 11 | |
| 8005076315 | official language | language adopted for use by the government for conduct of business and publication of documents | 12 | |
| 8005076316 | standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 13 | |
| 8005076317 | institutional language | used in education, work, mass media, and government | 14 | |
| 8005076318 | literary language | dialect of a language that is used in literary writing | 15 | |
| 8005076319 | Developing language | A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed. | 16 | |
| 8005076320 | vigorous language | a language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition | 17 | |
| 8005076321 | language family | group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin | 18 | |
| 8005076322 | Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. | 19 | |
| 8005076323 | language group | set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics | 20 | |
| 8005076324 | language divergence | the separating of a language, new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects | 21 | |
| 8005076325 | language | a system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another | 22 |