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Core Knowledge AP Human Geography > Chapter 5 Vocab > Flashcards

Chapter 5 Vocab Flashcards

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The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom

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British Received Pronunciation

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A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

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Creole or Creolized language

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3
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Combination of German and English

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Denglish

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4
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A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

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Dialect

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5
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Dialect spoken by some African Americans

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Ebonics

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A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used

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Extinct language

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A term used by the French for English words that entered the French Language

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Franglais

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System of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English

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Ideograms

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A boundary that seperates regions in which different language useages predominate

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Isogloss

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A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family

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Isolated language

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A system of communication through the use of speech a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning

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Language

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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 archeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family

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Language branch

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A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

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Language family

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A 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

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language group

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a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

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lingua franca

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16
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a language that is written as well as spoken

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literary tradition

17
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the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents

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official language

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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

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pidgin language

19
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combination of spanish and english, spoken by hispanic americans

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spanglish

20
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a form of latin used in daily conversation by ancient romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents

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vulgar latin

21
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the form of a language used for offical government business, education, and mass communications

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standard language

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Language family spoken by 46% of the worlds population. The branches are romance lang, Germanic lang, and Slavic Lang.

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Indo European family

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A geographic boundary line that defines the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs

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Isogloss

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the language developed for the use of international(people) to learn so they don’t have to learn all native language, but just one

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esperanto

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language family spoken by 46% of the world’s population

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Indo European family

26
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often shows is historical concepts long after the event has happened or person has died (naming)

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Toponyms

27
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study of speech areas and their local variations

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linguistic geography

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spatial interaction between speakers break down causing new words to develop (British/Americans)

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linguistic diversity

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with a shared, but fairly distant origin

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language families

30
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when a language is no longer used

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language extinction

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country that mainly speaks one language

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monolingual country

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country that mainly speaks more than 1 language

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multilingual country

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french, spanish, italian, romanian, and portuguese

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romance languages

Core Knowledge AP Human Geography (15 decks)

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