Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Chp. 5 Reading Test
Chapter 5 Reading Test - orange book
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Creole/creolized languages | a language that results from the mixing of colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
| Denglish | a combination of German & English |
| dialect | a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, & pronounciation |
| ebonics | a dialect spoken by some African Americans |
| extinct language | a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used |
| Franglais | a term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language |
| isogloss | a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate |
| isolated language | a language that is unrelated to any other languages & therefore not attached to any language family |
| language | a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning |
| language branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago; differences are not as extensive or a old as with languages families, & archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family |
| Indo-European | the most widely used language family; the predominant one in Europe, South Asia, & North & Latin America |
| Sino-Tibetan | encompasses languages spoken in the People's Republic of China and in several smaller countries in Southeast Asia |
| Austroneisan | spoken by about 6% of the world's people, mostly in Indonesia |
| Austro-Asiatic | spoken by about 2% of the world's population, it's based in Southeast-Asia |
| Tai Kadai | once classified as a branch of Sino-Tibetan; mostly spoken in Thailand & neighboring portions of China; these languages may have migrated from the Philippines |
| Japanese | uses two systems of phonetic symbols, like Western languages & used either in place of the logograms or alongside them |
| Korean | not written with logograms but in a system known as hankul (aka hangul or onmun); more than half of the language is derived from Chinese words |
| Afro-Asiatic | Arabic is the major language of this family; also includes Hebrew |
| Altaic | languages thought to have originated in the steppes bordering the Qilian Shan and Altai mountains between Tibet & China |
| Uralic | Estonia, Finland, Hungary are countries that speak languages that belong to the Uralic families; was once thought to be linked to Altaic |
| Niger-Congo | more than 95% of the sub-Saharan Africa speak languages of this family |
| Nilo-Saharan | spoken by a few million people in north-central Africa, immediately north of the Niger-Congo language region |
| Khoisan | a distinctive characteristic of these languages is the use of clicking sounds; most important language is Hottontot |
| AAVE | African American Vernacular English; distinctive dialect used among African Americans |
| language family | a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |
| language group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past & display relatively few differences in grammar & vocabulary |
| lingua franca | a language mutually understood & commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
| literary tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken |
| logogram | a symbol that represents a word rather than a sound |
| official language | the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business & publication of documents |
| pidgin language | a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar & limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of 2 different languages |
| received pronounciation (RP) | the dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London & now considered standard in the UK |
| Spanglish | a combination of Spanish & English spoken by Hispanic Americans |
| standard language | the form of a language used for official government business, education & mass communications |
| vulgar Latin | a form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents |
Created by:
jeanay26
Popular AP Human Geography sets