ap human test language Flashcards

8715473476	one-half	nearly ______ of the worlds population speaks a language belonging to the indo-european language family	0
8715480042	spanish, french, italian, portuguese, and romanian	five most widely spoken romance languages	1
8715492332	indo-iranian	which branch of the indo-european family has the most speakers	2
8715502438	eastern europe: ukraine and russia	languages in the balto-slavic branch are found primarily in	3
8715513318	roman alphabet	what alphabet does english use	4
8715519564	marija gimbutas	__________ had the theory that language diffused by war	5
8715557652	colin renfrew	_________ had the theory that language was diffused by farming	6
8715572781	angles, jutes, saxons	what three european peoles originally came together to form the english language and english people	7
8715586951	southern denmark	where are the angles from	8
8715590694	northern denmark	where are the jutes from	9
8715593637	germany	where are the saxons from	10
8715596575	franglais	mix of french and english	11
8715596579	spanglish	mix of spanish and english	12
8715600016	denglish	mix of german and english	13
8715607693	english	the most important language of international communication is	14
8715607694	lingua franca	language of international communication	15
8715613661	native speakers	a pidgin language has no	16
8715629297	90	languages are spoken by at least 10 million speakers	17
8715632262	304	approximately ____ languages are spoken by between 1 and 10 million people	18
8715640668	6,708 , 1 million	the remaining_______ languages are spoken by fewer than ______ people	19
8715645388	official language	used by government for laws, reports, and public objects such as street signs, money, and stamps	20
8715655939	literary tradition	a language that is written as well as spoken	21
8715660561	institutional language	used in education, at work, on television, mass media, and government speaks it	22
8715677878	developing languages	spoken daily, used by all ages	23
8715680578	vigorous language	spoken daily, used by all ages, lacks literary tradition	24
8715693837	vigorous language lacks literary tradition	main difference between developing and vigorous language	25
8715697083	language family	collection of languages related through a common ancestral language	26
8715702908	language branch	collections of languages within a family	27
8715706161	language group	collections of languages within a branch displaying similar grammar and vocab	28
8715715355	indo european and sino tibetan	what are the two largest language families	29
8720260471	dialect	regional variation of a language	30
8720274052	vocal, spelling, and pronunciation	dialects are distinguished by three things	31
8720277347	subdialect	subdivision of a dialect	32
8720285682	standard language	dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, businesses, education, and mass communication	33
8720304066	isogloss	word usage boundary	34
8720311186	north, south, midland, and west	4 major u.s. dialect regions	35
8720329652	children begin to learn the and practice it	a language is classified as reawakening when	36
8720342312	acculturation	a creolized language results from	37
8720346864	sino tibetan	what is the second largest language family	38
8720351980	vulgar latin	what was spoken by common people in southern europe	39
8720357623	denmark	which of the following is the best example of a monolingual state	40
8720366898	all are in the info european language family	what do the languages of english, spanish, and hindi have in common	41
8720378788	isolation	why did basque survive despite being surrounded by info european languages	42
8720385161	europe	which region has the fewest languages that are under threat of extinction	43
8720395120	toponym	a _______ is a place that reveals what his important to people and what the land is like	44
8720407573	logograms	as opposed to other languages that are phonetic chinese uses ________ that are not phonetic	45
8720415574	hebrew	an extinct language but came back and survived	46
8720420568	greek	what is not a romance language	47
8720429209	physical	the political boundaries of europe follow boundaries which follow _________ boundaries	48
8720435269	flemish/dutch	what language is spoken in the northern part of belgium	49
8720441167	indo european	what language family is french a member of	50
8720448749	spanish	which of the following is not an official language of switzerland	51
8720461452	sino tibetan	mandarin chinese is part of what branch	52
8720467654	normans	not a germanic speaking people that influenced english	53
8720470181	british colonialism	how was english brought to canada	54
8720615184	isolated language	language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family	55
8720634791	extinct language	language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer in use	56
8720675855	creolized language	a language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated	57
8720694775	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	58
8720711344	received pronunciations (rp)	the dialect of english associated with upper-class britons living in london and now considered standard in the united kingdom	59
8720747565	English, French, Arabic, russian, spanish, mandarin	6 languages of the United Nations are	60
8720813146	7,106	how many living languages are in the world	61
8720844109	roots	superfamilies are known to represent the ______ of the tree	62
8720868295	flemish speaking north (flanders) and french speaking south (wallonia)	belgium has two lingual regions	63
8720908590	vocab, spelling, and pronunciation	differences between british english and american english	64