Ap Human Geography Language Vocab Answers – Flashcards
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Institutional Language
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A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.
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Literary Tradition
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A language that is written as well as spoken.
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Developing Language
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A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.
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Vigorous Language
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A language that is spoken in daily use but lacks literary tradition.
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Language Family
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A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
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Language Branch
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A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence.
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Language Group
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A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
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Ethnologue
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One of the most authoritative sources for languages.
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Kurgan Hearth Theory
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Krugans established land as theirs because of military purposes.
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Anatolian Hearth Theory
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Archaeologists think that these people were farmers searching for land, that is how they think Indo-European started.
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Extinct Languages
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A language that was once used by people in daily activities but no longer used.
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Multilingual States
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When a country has more than one dominant language.
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Pidgin Language
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A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of lingua franca; used for communications among speaker of two different languages.
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Lingua Franca
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A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
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Dialect
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A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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Isogloss
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A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
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Isolated Language
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A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
