AP Human Geography Chapters 1-7 Cumulative Vocab
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| show | the study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places
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| Human Geography | show 🗑
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| show | the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. The processes of this transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales
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| show | one of the two major divisions of systematic geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of the Earth's natural phemenona such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography
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| show | pertaining to space on the Earth's surface, sometimes used as a synonym for geographic
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| show | physical location of geographic phenomena across space
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| Pattern | show 🗑
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| Medical Geography | show 🗑
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| Pandemic | show 🗑
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| Epidemic | show 🗑
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| Spatial Perspective | show 🗑
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| show | location, human-environment, region, place, and movement
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| show | the first theme of geography; the geographical situation of places and things
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| Location Theory | show 🗑
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| show | the second theme of geography; reciprocal relationship between humans of environment
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| Region | show 🗑
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| Place | show 🗑
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| Sense of Place | show 🗑
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| show | belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures
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| show | the fifth theme of geography; the mobility of people, goods and ideas across the surface of the planet
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| Distance | show 🗑
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| Accessibility | show 🗑
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| Connectivity | show 🗑
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| Landscape | show 🗑
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| Cultural Landscape | show 🗑
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| show | the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
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| show | the art and science of making maps, including data compilation, layout, and design. Also concerned with the interpretation of mapped patterns
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| show | maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude
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| Thematic Maps | show 🗑
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| show | the position or place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude
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| show | satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features
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| show | a hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the internet by other geogcachers
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| Relative Location | show 🗑
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| show | image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space
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| Activity Space | show 🗑
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| show | a method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study
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| Geographic Information Systems | show 🗑
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| show | involvement of players at other scales to generate support for a position or an iniative (e.g., use of the Internet to generate interest on a national or global scale for a local position or iniative
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| show | a type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena; also called uniform region or homogenous region
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| show | a region defined by the particular set of activites or interactions that occur within it
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| show | a region that only existsas a conceptualization or an idea and not as physically demarcated entity. ex. US "South" and "Mid-Atlantic" region
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| Culture | show 🗑
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| Culture Trait | show 🗑
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| show | a related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils
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| show | heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture
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| Independent Invention | show 🗑
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| show | the expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area
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| Time-distance Decay | show 🗑
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| show | prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture
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| show | the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination
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| Contagious Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Heirarchial Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Stimulus(aka Stimulation) Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Relocation Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Geographic Concept | show 🗑
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| Environmental Determinism | show 🗑
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| show | lines on a map connecting points of equal temperature values
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| show | the multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment
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| Political Ecology | show 🗑
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| show | a measurment of the number of people per given unit of land
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| Arithmetic Population Density | show 🗑
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| show | the number of people per unit area of arable land
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| show | description of locations on the earth's surface where populations live
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| Dot Map | show 🗑
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| Megalopolis | show 🗑
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| Census | show 🗑
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| show | the time required for a population to double in size
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| Population Explosion | show 🗑
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| Natural Increase | show 🗑
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| Crude Birth Rate | show 🗑
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| Crude Death Rate | show 🗑
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| show | multistage model of changes in pop. growth exhibited by countries undergoing indust.high birth&death rates followed by plunging death rates,producing a huge net pop. gain; followed by the convergence of birth rates&death rates at a low overall level
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| Stationary Population Level | show 🗑
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| Population Composition | show 🗑
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| show | visual rep. of age&sex comp. of a pop. whereby the per. of each age group is rep. by a horiz. bar the length of which rep. its rel. to the total pop. males in agegroup=left of center line in each horiz. bar;females in each agegroup=right of center line
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| Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) | show 🗑
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| Child Mortality Rate | show 🗑
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| Life Expectancy | show 🗑
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| show | immune system disease caused by HIV which over a per. of yrs weakens the capacity if the immune system to fight off infection sothat weight loss&weakness set in&other afflictions such as cancer or pneumonia may hasten an infected person's demise
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| Chronic(degenerative) Diseases | show 🗑
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| Expansive Population Policies | show 🗑
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| show | government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others
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| show | government policies designed to reduce the rate of natural increase
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| show | migration within a country
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| show | refugees who have crossed one or more international boundaries during their dislocation, searching for asylum in a different country
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| Intervening Opportunity | show 🗑
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| International Migration | show 🗑
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| show | laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state
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| Brain Drain | show 🗑
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| Space-time Prism | show 🗑
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| Counter-urbanization | show 🗑
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| show | the space within which daily activity occurs
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| show | movement that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally
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| Asylum | show 🗑
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| show | pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links
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| show | physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land
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| show | the effect of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less the interaction
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| show | a person examining a region that is unknown to them
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| show | human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate
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| show | a mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the general interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them
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| Guest Workers | show 🗑
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| Immigration Wave | show 🗑
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| Internal Migration | show 🗑
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| Internal Refugees | show 🗑
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| show | types of push factors or pull factors that influence a migrants decision to go where family or friends have already found success
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| show | developed by British demographer Ernst Ravenstetin, five laws that predict the flow of immigrants
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| Migrant Labor | show 🗑
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| Migration | show 🗑
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| Military Service | show 🗑
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| Nomadism | show 🗑
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| Periodic Movements | show 🗑
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| show | positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas
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| Push Factors | show 🗑
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| Selective Immigration | show 🗑
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| Step Migration | show 🗑
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| Transhumance | show 🗑
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| Voluntary Migration | show 🗑
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| Rust Belt | show 🗑
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| show | money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries
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| show | people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country
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| show | established limits by governments on the number of immirants who can enter a country each year
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| Islands of Development | show 🗑
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| Migration Selectivity | show 🗑
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| Glocalization | show 🗑
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| Global-local Continuum | show 🗑
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| show | a region in which the housing stock predominatly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area
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| show | neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolis city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs
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| Distance Decay | show 🗑
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| Diffusion Routes | show 🗑
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| Custom | show 🗑
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| Culture | show 🗑
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| show | the process through which something is given monetary value. It occurs when a good or idea that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy
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| show | in the context of local cultures or customs, the accuracy with which a single sterertypical or typeast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs
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| Cultural Appropriation | show 🗑
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| Assimilation | show 🗑
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| Hearth | show 🗑
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| Heirarchial Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Nonmaterial Culture | show 🗑
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| show | the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people
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| Local Culture | show 🗑
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| Folk Culture | show 🗑
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| show | cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced western societies
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| Time-space Compression | show 🗑
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| Neolocalism | show 🗑
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| show | defined by geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next
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| show | with respet to popular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own
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| Cultural Landscape | show 🗑
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| Deep Reconstruction | show 🗑
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| show | the sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior and patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society
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| Creole language | show 🗑
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| show | 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, beginning the diffusion and differentiation of indo-euro tongues
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| show | the tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants "backward" toward the original language
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| show | divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent
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| show | linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral Indo-Euro lang. that is the hearth of the ancient Latin,Greek,&Sanskrit lang. which hearth would link modern language from Scandinavia to N. Africa&from N. America through part of Asia to Aust.
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| Slavic language | show 🗑
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| Romance language | show 🗑
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| show | slight change in a word across languages within a sub-family or through a language family from the present backward toward its origin
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| show | place name
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| Language families | show 🗑
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| show | variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines. Differences in vocabulary, syntax(the way words are put together to form phrases), pronunciation, cadence, & pace of speech all mark a speaker's dialect
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| show | a langauge that is published, widely distributed, & purposefully thought
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| show | a set of sounds, combination of sounds, & symbols that are used for communication
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| Official language | show 🗑
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| Nostratic | show 🗑
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| Mutual Intelligibility | show 🗑
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| show | countries in which more than one language is spoken
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| Monolingual State | show 🗑
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| show | when parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary
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| Lingua franca | show 🗑
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| Language divergence | show 🗑
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| show | the collapsing of 2 languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages; the opposite of language divergence
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| show | 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 & trade
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| show | language without any native speakers
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| show | hypothesis which holds that the Indo-Euro languages that arose from Prot-Indo-Euro were first carried eastward into Southwest Asia, next around the Caspian sea, & then across the Russian-Ukrainian plains & onto the Balkans
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| Dialect chains | show 🗑
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| show | prominence of a syllable in terms of differential loudness, or of pitch, or length, or of a combination of these.
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| show | the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group.
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| Apartheid | show 🗑
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| show | increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood
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