AP Human Language vocab Flashcards
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| 10667877616 | Afro-Asiatic Language Family | Arabic and Hebrew | 0 | |
| 10667885935 | Altaic Languages | A language family that includes Turkish, Korean, and Japanese. | 1 | |
| 10667887707 | Austro-Asiatic Languages | Languages from south and Southeast Asia | 2 | |
| 10667892349 | Austronesians Languages | languages in SE Asia Madagascar, Pacific ocean | 3 | |
| 10667902809 | backward reconstruction | The tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants "backward" toward the original language | 4 | |
| 10667904318 | conquest theory | One major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe which holds that the early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tongues | 5 | |
| 10667909638 | Creole language | a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in a place of the mother tongue | 6 | |
| 10667917034 | deep reconstruction | process by which an extinct language is recreated | 7 | |
| 10667918551 | Dialect | a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. | 8 | |
| 10667921107 | dialect chains | a set of contagious dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related | 9 | |
| 10667923449 | dispersal hypothesis | Hypothesis which states that Indo-European languages that arose from Proto-Indo-European were first carried east into Southeast Asia and the into the Ukraine and into Russia and then into Balkans | 10 | |
| 10667927971 | Dravidian languages | a language family spoken mainly in southern India and parts of eastern and central India, as well as in northeastern Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan, and overseas in other countries such as Malaysia and Singapore | 11 | |
| 10667929471 | Germanic languages | English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish | 12 | |
| 10667933770 | global language | The language used most commonly around the world -English | 13 | |
| 10667938548 | Hellenistic language | Koine | 14 | |
| 10667942816 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | 15 | |
| 10667945214 | Italic Languages | Romance languages derived from Latin (Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Galician, French, Romanian, Occitan, etc | 16 | |
| 10667949733 | language | A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning. | 17 | |
| 10667953602 | language convergence | collapsing of two language into one. | 18 | |
| 10667955890 | language divergence | new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects | 19 | |
| 10667958327 | language family | a group of similar languages | 20 | |
| 10667961206 | language subfamily | a smaller group of related languages within a language family | 21 | |
| 10667969131 | lingua franca | a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce | 22 | |
| 10667972187 | Monoligual States | countries in which only one language is spoken | 23 | |
| 10667976350 | multilingual states | countries in which more than one language is spoken | 24 | |
| 10667979665 | mutual intelligibility | two people can understand each other when speaking | 25 | |
| 10667982045 | nostratic | hypothesized ancestral language of Proto-Indo-European, as well as other ancestral language families. | 26 | |
| 10667989651 | 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. | 27 | |
| 10667991869 | Preliterate society | People who speak their language but cannot write it | 28 | |
| 10667994177 | Proto-Indo-European | hypothesized ancestral Indo-European language that is the hearth of the ancient Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit languages. | 29 | |
| 10667997264 | Renfrew Hypothesis | three areas in and around fertile crescent, gave rise to three language families. | 30 | |
| 10668001233 | Romance languages | Languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese) that lie in the areas that were once controlled by the Roman Empire but were not subsequently overwhelmed | 31 | |
| 10668015129 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese | 32 | |
| 10668020654 | Slavic languages | Languages (Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian) that developed as Slavic | 33 | |
| 10668028066 | soundshift | when a word that is derived from a language is modified a little, but it still sounds alike | 34 | |
| 10668031218 | standard language | a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication | 35 | |
| 10668033908 | Yiddish | Jewish language | 36 |