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AP Human Geography

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Language   show
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show Ability of two people to understand each other when speaking.  
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Standard language   show
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show Variant of a standard language along regional or ethic lines.  
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show A group of contiguous 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 where linguistic features occur.  
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show Group of languages with a shared but distant origin.  
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Language subfamilies   show
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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. It is the opposite of language convergence.  
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Backward reconstruction   show
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show Process where two languages collapse into one language. It happens when people speaking two languages have frequent and consistent spatial interaction with each other. It is the opposite of language divergence.  
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Extinct language   show
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show Idea that early speakers of Proto-Indo-European left the hearth area and moved westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tongues.  
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show The theory that the Proto-Indo-European language spread with the diffusion of agriculture.  
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Vernacular   show
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show Language used for trade or cultural interaction among people who speak different languages.  
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Pidgin language   show
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Creole language   show
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show Place name.  
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