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chapter 5 quiz

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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  
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creole language   began as a Pidgin language, but later adopted as mother tongue by the people of the mother tongue land  
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dialect   variant of a language (pronounciation, grammar, and vocabulary)  
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dispersal theory   Indo-European first moved East to South West Asia -> Caspian Sea -> Russian-Ukraine Plains -> Balkans. Another part said it moved west.  
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extinct language   languages without any native speakers  
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germanic languages   English, German, Danish, Norweian, and Swedish  
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isogloss   geographic boundary where linguist features occur  
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language convergence   2 languages collasping into 1  
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language divergence   1 language formed into 2  
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lingua franca   ancient language in the Mediterranean ports usually for trading and commerce  
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official language   multilingual countries have language chosen by an eduacated, powerful elite, usually the language is spoken in Courts and in the government  
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pidgin language   where 2 or more languages come. part of each of them combine into a simplified structure and vocabulary  
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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  
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toponym   place name  
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