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AP Hum Geo Ch6

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language   show
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mutual intelligibility   show
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show The variant of a language that a country’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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dialect   show
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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 fairly distant origin.  
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subfamilies (language)   show
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show Linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral Indo-European language that is the hearth of the ancient Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit languages which hearth would link modern languages from Scandinavia to North Africa and from North America th  
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show The tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants “backward” toward the original language.  
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show Language without any native speakers.  
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language divergence   show
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language convergence   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 and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European ton  
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Romance languages   show
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Germanic languages   show
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show Languages (Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian) that developed as Slavic people migrated from a base in present-day Ukraine close to 2000 years ago.  
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lingua franca   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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show A language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the mother tongue.  
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show Countries in which only one language is spoken.  
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show Countries in which more than one language is spoken.  
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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 and trade.  
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show The fourth theme of geography as defined by the Geography Educational National Implementation Project; uniqueness of location.  
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toponym   show
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