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AP Human Geography: Language

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AP Human Geography: Language Accent - exam--A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. Dialect - exam--A part ... icular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. Extinct Language - exam--An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. Ideogram - exam--A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) Isogloss - exam--A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. Isolated Language - exam--a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language. Language Branch - exam--A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. Language - exam--The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. Language Group - exam--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. Language Family - exam--A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history Indo European language family - exam--Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. Sino-Tibetan Language Family - exam--2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese Lingua Franca - exam--A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages, A term deriving from "Frankish language" and applying to a tongue spoken in ancient Mediterranean ports that consisted of a mixture of Italian, French, Greek, Spanish, and even some Arabic. Today it refers to a "common language," a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce. [Show More]

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