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AP HuG 5 VOCAB
AP human geography vocab for CHAPTER 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a system of communication through speech, movement, sounds, or symbols that a group of people understands | language |
| a force that tends to unify people | centripetal force |
| a force that tends to pull people apart | centrifugal force |
| used in education, work, mass media, and government | institutional language |
| is in daily use by many people | developing language |
| daily use but lacks tradition | vigorous language |
| losing users | threatened language |
| not being passed on to generations, dying | dying language |
| written as well as spoken | literary tradition |
| a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history | language family |
| collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed thousands of years ago | language branch |
| a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary | language group |
| a language of international communication | lingua franca |
| symbols that represent words or meaningful parts of words | logograms |
| used by the government to enact legislation, publish documents, and conduct other public business | official language |
| is designated by an international organization or corporation as its primary means of communication | working language |
| simplified form of English and another lingua franca(Ex: Spanglish | pidgin language |
| regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocab, spelling and pronunciation | dialect |
| a subdivision of a dialect | subdialect |
| a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable | standard language |
| word using boundary in countries | isogloss |
| refers to the ability of people speaking in two ways to readily understand each other w/o prior familiarity | mutual intelligibility |
| - a language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with indigenous peoples being dominated | creole |
| language that is dying out b/c children are no speaking it and it is no longer being taught (EX: Aboriginal languages in Australia) | endangered language |
| language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family (Ex: Basque) | isolated language |
| a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer in use (Ex: Clallam) | extinct language |
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