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Chapter 6 Vocab Quiz

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1. Isogloss




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2. Dialect




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3. Mutual intelligibility




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4. Vernacular




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5. Pidgin language




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6. Language subfamilies




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7. Conquest Theory




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8. Cognate




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9. Backward reconstruction




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10. Language family




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11. Process where 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.




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




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14. A group of contiguous dialects where the dialects nearest to each other geographically are the most similar and the dialects farther apart are least similar




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15. 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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16. Language used for trade or cultural interaction among people who speak different languages.




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17. A language that began as a pidgin language and was later adopted as the mother tongue of a people.




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18. Place name.




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19. A set of sounds and symbols that are used for communication. Language convergence




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20. Language without any native speakers.





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