In each blank, try to type in the
word that is missing. If you've
typed in the correct word, the
blank will turn green.
If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Term: Definition: a set of sounds and symbols that are used for Term: intelligibility
Definition: of two people to understand each other when speaking Term: language
Definition: the variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in , government, the media, and other aspects of public life Term: Dialect
Definition: variants of a standard language regional or ethic lines Term: chain
Definition: a group of contiguous dialects where the dialects to each other geographically are the most similar and the dialects further apart are least similar Term: Isogloss
Definition: a geographic boundary where linguistic features Term: family
Definition: group of languages with a but distant origin Term: subfamilies
Definition: divisions within a language family where are more definite are the origin is more recent Term: Cognate
Definition: a word in one language that shares its origin with a word in another language; cognates have similar meanings and spellings and show shared origins and connections among Term: divergence
Definition: process discrete, new languages are eventually formed from one language; happens when people speaking two dialects of a language are relatively isolated from each other and have little spatial interaction; the opposite of language convergence Term: reconstruction
Definition: tracking sound shifts and hardening consonants backward to an original language Term: convergence
Definition: process where two languages collapse into one language; happens when people speaking two languages have frequent and consistent interaction with each other; the opposite of language divergence Term: Extinct Definition: language without any native Term: Conquest Definition: idea that early speakers of Proto-Indo-European left the hearth area and moved westward on horseback, overpowering earlier and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-Europeans tongues Term: Agriculture Definition: the theory that Proto-Indo-European language with the diffusion of agriculture Term: Vernacular
Definition: a language used in everyday interaction among a group of people in a area Term: Lingua Definition: used for trade or cultural interaction among people who speak different languages Term: Pidgin Definition: combination of two or more languages in a structure and vocabulary Term: language
Definition: a language that begins as a pidgin and was later adopted as the mother tongue of a people Term: Toponym
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