AP HUG Language Flashcards
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| 11182271661 | Accent | Specific form of pronunciation | 0 | |
| 11182271662 | Anatolian Hypothesis | The Proto-Indo-European language peacefully spread through the innovation of agriculture. | 1 | |
| 11182271663 | Creole | Any native and colonizer language mixed together | 2 | |
| 11182271664 | Dialect | Regional variation of a language | 3 | |
| 11182271665 | Extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 4 | |
| 11182271666 | Ideogram | Represents concepts or ideas | 5 | |
| 11182271667 | Indo-European | includes Germanic and romance languages, spoken b about 50% of the world's people | 6 | |
| 11182271668 | Nostratic Hypothesis | hypothesis that every language family has an ancestor and that the ancestor for Indo-European is the Nostratic Language family. | 7 | |
| 11182271669 | Isogloss | Dialects geographical boundary | 8 | |
| 11182271670 | Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. | 9 | |
| 11182271671 | Kurgan Hypothesis | Indo - European languages arrived in Europe around 3000 BCE with violent origins; came in on horse drawn war chariots and attacked the agriculturalists living in Europe | 10 | |
| 11182271672 | 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. | 11 | |
| 11182271673 | Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family. | 12 | |
| 11182271674 | Language Family | Group of languages descended from a single, earlier tongue | 13 | |
| 11182271675 | Language Group | Related languages with more recent common ancestors | 14 | |
| 11182271676 | Lingua Franca | Language used between two people who speak different languages | 15 | |
| 11182271677 | Linguism / Linguicide | Discrimination based upon a persons language | 16 | |
| 11182271678 | Literary Tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken; system of written communication | 17 | |
| 11182271679 | Mono-Linguality | Speaking only one language | 18 | |
| 11182271680 | Bi-Linguality | Speaking two languages | 19 | |
| 11182271681 | Multi-linguality | Speaking several languages | 20 | |
| 11182271682 | National Language | language spoken in majority of country | 21 | |
| 11182271683 | Official Language | A language declared by the goverment | 22 | |
| 11182271684 | Orthography | correct spelling, a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols | 23 | |
| 11182271685 | Pidgin | when two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary | 24 | |
| 11182271686 | Polygot | Someone with knowledge of two or more languages | 25 | |
| 11182271687 | Slang | Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions | 26 | |
| 11182271688 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 27 | |
| 11182271689 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 28 | |
| 11182271690 | Toponym | names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features, and streams. | 29 | |
| 11182271691 | Trade Language | A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other. | 30 | |
| 11182271692 | Vernacular | The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region | 31 | |
| 11182271693 | Vocabulary | A group of words that a person knows or should know | 32 |