Ap Human Geography Language Test Questions – Flashcards
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A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history is?
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Language Family.
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A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past is?
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Language Group.
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A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago is?
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Language Branch.
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There are how many Indo-European Branches?
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Eight.
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Name the eight Indo-European Branches.
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Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Romance, Balto-slovak, Armenian, Albanian, and Celtic.
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What are the two main language groups under the Germanic Branch?
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West Germanic and North Germanic.
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What are the two main languages of Latin America?
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Spanish and Portuguese.
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The Kurgans were from what hearth?
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Russia.
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Who came up with the Sedentary Farmers theory?
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Colin Renfrew.
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What is another name for Anatolia?
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Turkey.
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Who came up with the Nomadic Warrior Theory?
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Marija Gimbutas.
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Where were the Sedentary Farmers from?
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Turkey.
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What was the secret weapon of the Kurgans?
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Horses.
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Were the Kurgans farmers of warriors?
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Warriors.
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What Branch does English come from?
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Germanic.
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What Family does English come from?
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Indo-European.
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What group does English come from?
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West Germanic.
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Language is what part of culture?
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Values.
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A system of written communication is what?
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Literary Tradition.
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The language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects such as road signs, money, and stamps is called what?
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Official Language.
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How is language like luggage?
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You carry it with you as you go from place to place.
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What two factors threaten the existence of language?
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Globalization and Dominance of English.
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Two geographical processes result when a language is spread by explorers to new lands, what are these processes?
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Isolation and relocation.
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How do English and American English differ?
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Spelling, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation.
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What are the names of the first three invaders of Great Britain?
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Angles, Jutes, and Saxons.
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What were the next two people that invaded Great Britain?
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Vikings and Normans.
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Define: is well known because is commonly used by politicians, broadcasters, and actors in England.
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British Received Pronunciation.
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In a language with multiple dialects, one dialect is known as the blank language.
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Standard Language.
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Define: Is a regional variation of language distribution by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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Dialect.
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Where did the Normans come from?
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Normandy, France.
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Where did the Vikings come from?
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Scandinavia and Norway.
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A word usage boundary is what?
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Isogloss.
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What are the three dialects in the USA's Eastern area?
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Northern, Midlands, and Southern.
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What three branches of the Indo-European refer to a specific country?
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Greek, Albanian, and Romance.
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What is the official language of India?
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English.
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Name the five groups under North Germanic group
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Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Faeroese, and Danish.
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Name the four groups under the West Germanic group
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English, German, Dutch, and Frisian.
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Next to the English language, which language has the most speakers in India?
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Hindi.
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In the Western group of Indo-Iranian language branch, what are the three languages?
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Pasto, Persian, and Kurdish.
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What are the three major languages of East Slavic group of the Balto- Slavic group?
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Russian, Bellarouse, and Ukraine.
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The mother language that all Romance Branch languages come from is?
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Latin.
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Name the four most used contemporary Romance languages
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Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian.
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How was the original Latin spread?
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By the Romans through relocation diffusion.
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What happened as a result of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
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West part of South America spoke Spanish and East part of South America spoke Portuguese.
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Colin Renfrew argues that Indo-European diffused into Europe and South Asia along with what practices rather than by what conquest?
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Agricultural practices and Military conquests.
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Next to Indo-European language family what is the second biggest language family?
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Sino-Tibetan.
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Is Japanese a separate language family or part of the Sino-Tibetan family?
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Separate.
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What is a wide margin or the most used language in the world?
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Mandarin.
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Chinese languages are based on 420 what words?
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Single syllable words.
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The Chinese languages method of writing is using what?
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Ideograms.
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More than 95% of the people in Sub-Sahara Africa speak languages of the Niger-Congo family. One of the languages is called?
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Swahili.
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A combination of Spanish and English is called what?
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Spanglish.
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A combination of German and English is called what?
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Denglish.
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Dialect spoken by some African Americans is called what?
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Ebonics.
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Give two examples of an isolate language.
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Icelandic, Basque.
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Give an examples of an extinct language.
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Cornish.
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Give an example of a revived language.
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Hebrew.
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What are the two languages of Belgium?
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Walloon and Flemish.
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What are the four languages of Switzerland?
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German, French, Swedish, and Italian.
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What are the two official languages of Canada?
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English and French.
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Is Walloon French or Dutch?
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French.
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Is Flemish French or Dutch?
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Dutch.
