Key Terms Chapter 6
Subject:
Human Geography [1]
Language set of sounds and symbols that is used for communication. Mutual intelligibility the ability for two people to understand each other when speaking. Standard language language that is published, widely distributed, and purposefully taught in a country. Dialects variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines Dialect chains the dialects nearest to each other are the most similar. Isogloss geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs. Language families within a language family, languages have shared but distant origin. Subfamilies commonalities between languages are more definite and origin is more recent. Sound shift slight change in word across languages within subfamily