Chapter 6
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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| show | When two people can understand each other when speaking.
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| Standard language | show 🗑
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| Dialect | show 🗑
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| show | A group of contagious dialects where the dialects nearest to each other geographically are the most similar and the dialects farther apart are least similar.
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| show | A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs.
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| show | Group of languages with a shared but distant origin.
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| show | Divisions within a language family where commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent.
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| show | A word in one language that shares its origin with a word in another language. Cognates have similar meanings and spellings and show shared origins and connections among languages.
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| show | Process where discrete, new languages are eventually formed from one language. Happens when people speaking two dialects of a language are relatively isolated from each other and have little spatial interaction; the opposite of language convergence.
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| show | Tracking sound shifts and hardening consonants backward to uncover an original language.
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| Language convergence | show 🗑
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| show | Language without any native speakers.
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| Conquest theory | show 🗑
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| Agriculture theory | show 🗑
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| show | A language used in everyday interaction among a group of people in a local area.
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| show | Language used for trade or cultural interaction among people who speak different languages.
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| show | Combination of two or more languages in a simplified structure and vocabulary.
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| show | A language that began as a pidgin language and was later adopted as the mother tongue of a people.
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| show | Place name
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Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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