Mr. Nyren's AP HUG Ch. 6: Language
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| language | show 🗑
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| standard language | show 🗑
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| dialects | show 🗑
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| isogloss | show 🗑
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| show | the ability of two pwople to understand each other when speaking
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| show | a set of contiguous dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related
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| language families | show 🗑
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| subfamilies | show 🗑
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| sound shift | show 🗑
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| Proto-Indo-European | show 🗑
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| show | the tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants "backward" toward the original language
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| extinct language | show 🗑
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| show | technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to re-create the language that proceeded the extinct language
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| show | language believed to be the ancestral language not only of Proto-Indo-European, but also the Kartvelian languages.
languages such as Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, and Mongolian
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| show | 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 the lack of spatialinteraction among speakers of the language
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| show | the collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of people with different languages; the opposite of language divergence
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| Romance languages | show 🗑
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| Germanic languages | show 🗑
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| show | languages that developed as Slavic people migrated from a base in present day Ukraine close to 2000 years ago
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| show | today, it refers to a "common language" a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce.
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| show | when parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary
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| show | a language that began as a pidgin language, but was later adopted by the mother tongue by the people in places of the mother tongue
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| show | countries in which only one language is spoken
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| show | countries in which more than one language is spoken
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| official language | show 🗑
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| show | the language commonly used around the world
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| place | show 🗑
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| show | place name
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