AP Human Geography Chapter 5 Key Issue 2 – Flashcards

1 of 3 most widely used languages in Europe. Application: West Germanic is separated into high and low Example: English and German are a part of this branch

Language family with most speakers Application: includes more than 100 individual languages, divided into an Eastern (Indic) and Western (Iranian) Example: western spoken in Iran and neighboring countries in Central Asia.

Eastern ones are most commonly used. Application: importance of Russian increased when Soviet Union's rise to power after end of World War 2. Forced people who spoke different languages to learn Russian so it can be uniform. Example: Russian spoken by more than 80% of Russian people

Evolved from Latin language spoken by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Application: Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian Example: france, italy. Physical boundaries between each country and different language

spoken in provinces, spoken form of Latin. Application: means the masses Example: introduced by soldiers stationed in empire

Kurgan- steppes near border between present day Russia and Kazakhstan. Antolian- 2,000 years before Kurgans in Eastern Anatolia which s part of present day Turkey. Application: kurgan's were nomadic herders example: diffused westward to Greece