AP Hum Geo Ch6
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| language | A set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication.
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| mutual intelligibility | The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking.
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| standard language | The variant of a language that a country’s political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life.
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| dialect | Local or regional characteristics of a language. While accent refers to the pronunciation differences of a standard language, a dialect, in addition to pronunciation variation, has distinctive grammar and vocabulary.
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| isogloss | A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs.
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| language family | Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin.
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| subfamilies (language) | Divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent.
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| Proto-Indo-European (language) | Linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral Indo-European language that is the hearth of the ancient Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit languages which hearth would link modern languages from Scandinavia to North Africa and from North America th
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| backward reconstruction | The tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants “backward” toward the original language.
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| extinct language | Language without any native speakers.
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| language divergence | The opposite of language convergence, a process suggested by German linguist August Schleicher whereby new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of the language and continued isolatio
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| language convergence | The collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages; the opposite of language divergence.
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| conquest theory | One major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe which holds that the early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European ton
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| Romance languages | Languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese) that lie in the areas that were once controlled by the Roman Empire but were not subsequently overwhelmed.
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| Germanic languages | Languages (English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) that reflect the expansion of peoples out of Northern Europe to the west and south.
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| Slavic languages | Languages (Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian) that developed as Slavic people migrated from a base in present-day Ukraine close to 2000 years ago.
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| lingua franca | A term deriving from “Frankish language” and applying to a tongue spoken in ancient Mediterranean ports that consisted of a mixture of Italian, French, Greek, Spanish, and even some Arabic. Today it refers to a “common language,” a language used among spe
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| pidgin language | When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary.
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| Creole language | A language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the mother tongue.
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| monolingual states | Countries in which only one language is spoken.
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| multilingual states | Countries in which more than one language is spoken.
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| global language | The language used most commonly around the world; defined on the basis of either the number of speakers of the language, or prevalence of use in commerce and trade.
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| place | The fourth theme of geography as defined by the Geography Educational National Implementation Project; uniqueness of location.
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| toponym | Place name.
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