aphg_-_chapter_5_language.pptx
APHG ? Chapter 5: LanguageFall 2013Mr. Guge, Instructor *Slides used from presentations by? Jane Martinez, Lake Region Senior High Mary Schubert, Hamilton High School Language Defined Organized system of spoken words by which people communicate with one another with mutual comprehension (Getis, 1985). Languages subtly gradate one to another. Dialects and other regional differences may eventually lead to incomprehensibility - a new language. Migration and Isolation explain how a single language can later become two or more. Geographer?s Perspective on Language Language is an essential element of culture, possibly the most important medium by which culture is transmitted.