Ap human geography chapter 5 jeopardy – Flashcards
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what is the written form of a language?
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literary tradition
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what is a form of language spoken in a local area?
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dialect
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Group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into different languages
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language branch
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what is a language that is mutually understood by people that have different native languages?
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Lingua Franca
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Group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history?
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language family
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what is a mix of colonized and indigenous languages?
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A Creolized language
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what is the second largest language family?
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Sino-Tibetan
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germanic invaders of Britain include all but which group Normans, Angles, Judes, and Saxons?
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Normans
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why is English the most important language in the US?
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The diffusion of English colonies
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The first speakers of the language that evolved into English were from what present-day country?
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Denmark
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Who were the first speakers of the Indo-European language?
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Kurgans
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why has Icelandic changed less than any other Germanic language
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isolation
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The Flemings and Whallons live in what country?
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Belgium
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English is part of which language family?
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Indo-European
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English is part of which language group?
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West- Germanic
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English is part of which language branch?
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Germanic
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which of the following is not a romance language Bulgarian, French, Italian, and Spanish?
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Bulgarian
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Urdu is the most important language of what country?
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Pakistan
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what language is the first primary language in the world?
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Mandrain
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Chinese is written in the form of what?
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ideograms
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Basque is primarily spoken in near what mountain range
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The Pyrenees mountains
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what is the boundary between language regions?
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isogloss
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what is the most important language family in sub-Saharan Africa?
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Niger-Congo
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according to the Anatolian Hearth theory, Indo-European language diffusion coincided with the diffusion of what else?
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diffusion of agriculture
