APHG Ch.8 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Preliterate Societies | peoples who speak their language but do not write it. |
| Linguistic Diversification | the differences among people speaking separate languages. |
| language | a systematic means of communicating ideas of feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, gestures, marks, or especially articulate vocal sounds. |
| standard language | likely to be used in technologically advanced societies; its quality is a matter of cultural identity and national concern. |
| dialects | regional variants of a standard language |
| isoglosses | geographic boundaries within which a particular linguistic feature occurs. |
| language family | group of languages thought to have a shared, but fairly distant, origin. |
| language subfamily | language group with a more definite commonality |
| language group | divisions of subfamilies that consist of sets of individual languages |
| Indo-European | Language family that is spoken by about half the world's population |
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