AP Human Geo- Language Flashcards
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| 11652957760 | creole | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | 0 | |
| 11652960594 | Denglish | Combination of German and English | 1 | |
| 11652965963 | dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 2 | |
| 11652976554 | Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African Americans | 3 | |
| 11652976555 | extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 4 | |
| 11652985350 | Franglais | A combination of French and English | 5 | |
| 11652990063 | institutional language | A language used in education, work, mass media, and government. | 6 | |
| 11652997952 | isolated language | a language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family | 7 | |
| 11653000309 | 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. | 8 | |
| 11653012033 | language diffusion | movement of languages through migration (primarily relocation, but also contagious and hierarchical in some cases) | 9 | |
| 11653027140 | language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 10 | |
| 11653027141 | language tree | a representation of the relationships of languages to each other | 11 | |
| 11653030844 | lingua franca | a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different. | 12 | |
| 11653039429 | linguistic geography | the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features | 13 | |
| 11653056230 | logogram | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound | 14 | |
| 11653059358 | nation | a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language (and maybe inhabiting a particular country or territory). | 15 | |
| 11653134741 | official language | Language in which all government business occurs in a country. | 16 | |
| 11653179401 | pictogram | drawing used to represent a word | 17 | |
| 11653182120 | pidgin | 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. | 18 | |
| 11653227313 | phonetic alphabet | an alphabet that contains a different symbol for each individual sound in a language; in this alphabet there is a one to one relationship between sounds and symbols | 19 | |
| 11653230904 | protolanguage | A reconstructed ancestral language that forms the basis for a language family (the roots of the language tree) | 20 | |
| 11653234175 | standard language | a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication | 21 | |
| 11653240214 | state | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs. | 22 | |
| 11653243686 | vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people | 23 |