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AP Human Geography Language Chapter 5 Flashcards
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- 1accentthe manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world
- 2Esperantoa made-up Latin-based language, which its European proponents in the early twentieth century hoped would become a global language
- 3extinct languagea language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
- 4isolated languagea language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
- 5lingua francaa language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different languages
- 6orthographythe study of where languages are found/located
- 7pidgina form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages
- 8toponymthe name by which a geographical place is known
- 9trade languagea language used by native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so they can trade with each other
- 10vernacularthe everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
- 11languagea system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning
- 12literary traditiona system of written communication
- 13official languageone language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps
- 14dialecta regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
- 15isoglossa word-usage boundary
- 16standard languagea dialect that is well-established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication
- 17language familya collection of languages related to a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history (e.g. Indo-European)
- 18language brancha collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed thousands of years ago
- 19language groupa collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
- 20ideogramscharacters that represent ideas or concepts, not specific pronunciations
- 21mono-lingualityspeaking only one language
- 22bi-lingualityspeaking two languages
- 23multi-lingualityspeaking several languages
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- 9th grade AP Human Geography (Language) Flashcards on AP Human Geography Language Chapter 5 Flashcards, created by Astha Parmar on 30/11/2017.
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