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5 Language
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Term | Definition |
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conquest theory | early Pro-Indo-European speakers spread West by horsenack, overpowering, beginning diffusion and differentiation of the Indo-European tongues |
creole language | began as a Pidgin language, but later adopted as mother tongue by the people of the mother tongue land |
dialect | variant of a language (pronounciation, grammar, and vocabulary) |
dispersal theory | Indo-European first moved East to South West Asia -> Caspian Sea -> Russian-Ukraine Plains -> Balkans. Another part said it moved west. |
extinct language | languages without any native speakers |
germanic languages | English, German, Danish, Norweian, and Swedish |
isogloss | geographic boundary where linguist features occur |
language convergence | 2 languages collasping into 1 |
language divergence | 1 language formed into 2 |
lingua franca | ancient language in the Mediterranean ports usually for trading and commerce |
official language | multilingual countries have language chosen by an eduacated, powerful elite, usually the language is spoken in Courts and in the government |
pidgin language | where 2 or more languages come. part of each of them combine into a simplified structure and vocabulary |
Renfrew's hypothesis | Proto Indo-European came from Fertile Crescent, Anatolia into Europe, West Arc to North Africa and Arab, and East Arc into Iran , Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India |
toponym | place name |