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Lake Park - AP Human Geography - Chapter 5 Vocabulary

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Creole or Creolized Language   show
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Dialect   show
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Extinct Language   show
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show The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as in the case with letters in English  
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Isogloss   show
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show A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history  
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show A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and displays relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary  
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show A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages  
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show A language that is written as well as spoken  
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show The language adopted for use by the government for use conduct of business and publication of documents  
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Pidgin Language   show
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show The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications  
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Proto-Indo-European   show
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show A process whereby new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects due to a lack of special interaction among speakers of the language and continued isolation eventually causes the division of the language into discrete new languages.  
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show Hypothesis proposed that three areas in and near the agricultural hearth, the Fertile Crescent, gave rise to three language families: Europe's Indo-European; North Africa and Arabian; and the languages in present-day Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India  
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Conquest Theory   show
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show Hypothesis which holds that the Indo-European languages that arose from the Proto-Indo-European were first carried eastward into Southwest Asia, next around Caspian Sea, and then across the Russian-Ukrainian plains and on into the Balkans  
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Monolingual States   show
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Multilingual States   show
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show Place name  
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show The variant of a language that a county's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life  
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show A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs.  
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Extinct Language   show
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Nostratic   show
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Pidgin Language   show
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Creole Language   show
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Official Language   show
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show 1) The nonstandard indigenous language or dialect of a locality. 2) Of or related to indigenous arts and architecture, such as a vernacular house. 3) Of or related to the perceptions and understandings of the general population, such a vernacular region  
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Dialect   show
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Lingua Franca   show
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Pidgin Language   show
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