AP Human Geography Language

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  1. 3. One of the 15 major language families. Large group of languages that all descended from a language spoken 6,000 years ago. Nearly half of the worlds population speaks one of the languages of the Indo European family.
  2. 7. A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
  3. 9. The collapsing of two language into one.
  4. 11. A regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation; also a form of a language spoken by members of a particular social class or profession
  5. 12. Place name
  6. 15. Slight change in a word across languages within a subfamily or through a language family from the present backward toward its origin
  7. 16. The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
  8. 18. A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
  9. 21. Countries in which only one language is spoken
  10. 23. Countries in which more than one language is spoken
  11. 24. The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
  12. 25. The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
  13. 28. A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
  14. 29. New languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects
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  1. 1. A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other.
  2. 2. A technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to re-create the language that preceded it.
  3. 4. A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
  4. 5. The tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants backward toward the original language
  5. 6. A set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics
  6. 8. A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
  7. 10. A system of words used in a particular discipline
  8. 13. A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
  9. 14. An extinct language that is brought back into society. Example: Hebrew post WW2
  10. 17. The theory that early Proto-Indo-European speakers spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tongues
  11. 19. A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
  12. 20. The core of a pre-Proto-Indo-European language
  13. 22. A language used commonly around the world
  14. 26. A common language used by speakers of different languages
  15. 27. A set of contiguous dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related