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Chapter 6 Quiz

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1. Language divergence




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2. Creole language




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3. Lingua franca




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4. Extinct language




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5. Dialect chain




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6. Pidgin language




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7. Language subfamilies




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8. Isogloss




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9. Dialect




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10. Backward reconstruction




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11. Place name.




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12. Ability of two people to understand each other when speaking.




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13. A set of sounds and symbols that are used for communication.




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14. A word in one language that shares its origin with a word in another language. Have similar meanings and spellings and show shared origins and connections among languages.




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15. The theory that the Proto-Indo-European language spread with the diffusion of agriculture.




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16. The variant of a language that a country’s political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life.




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17. Process where two languages collapse into one language. Happens when people speaking two languages have frequent and consistent spatial interaction with each other; the opposite of language divergence.




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18. A language used in everyday interaction among a group of people in a local area.




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19. Group of languages with a shared but distant origin.




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20. Idea that early speakers of Proto-Indo-European left the hearth area and moved westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tongues.





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