AP Human Geography 7.1 Vocab.

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Across
  1. 3. a system of written communication
  2. 5. a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
  3. 8. a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago; differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family
  4. 10. recognized in much of the English-speaking world as the standard form of British speech; well known because it is commonly used by politicians, broadcasters, and actors
  5. 12. the dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication
Down
  1. 1. a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning; many languages also have a literary tradition
  2. 2. a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigineous language of the people being dominated
  3. 4. the Latin that people in the provinces learned was not the standard literary form but spoken form; from the Latin word referring to “the masses” of the populace
  4. 6. the one used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps
  5. 7. a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
  6. 9. a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
  7. 11. a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate