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AP Human Geography Chapter 5

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how many languages are spoken today not including dialects   over 6,000  
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how many languages are spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa alone   1,500+  
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how many languages are spoken in New Guinea alone   400+  
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how many languages are spoken in Europe alone   100+  
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how many threatened or endangered languages are there   2,000+  
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if someone is a native speaker of a language, what does that mean   that language is their primary language  
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if someone is a non-native speaker of a language, what does that mean   it is not their primary language  
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how many people speak Mandarin Chinese   1.3 Billion  
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how many people speak Spanish   442 million  
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how many people speak English   378 million  
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how many people speak Arabic   315 million  
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how many people speak Hindi   260 million  
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how many people speak Bengali   243 million  
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how many people speak Portuguese   223 million  
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how many people speak Russian   154 million  
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how many people speak Japanese   128 million  
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how many people speak Lahnda/ Punjabi   119 million  
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what are the top 5 languages with the most speakers   Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, Hindi  
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organized system of spoken words by which people communicate with each other with mutual comprehension   language  
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a group of languages descended from a single, older tongue   language families  
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what makes up a language family   similar vocabulary, similar grammar, similar sounds  
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the earlier, older language   protolanguage  
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which language family is the most widely spoken   indo-european  
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what language family, branch and group is English in   family: Indo-European branch: Germanic group: Modern English  
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where is Latin dominant throughout   Roman Empire  
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what are the 5 romance languages   italian, spanish, french, portuguese, romanian  
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why are they named the romance languages   they descended from Rome  
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what are the 4 germanic languages   english, german, dutch, scandinavian  
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what is the indo-european hearth   Turkey (Anatolia)  
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how did english diffuse   throughout the world by hundreds of years of British Colonialism. Brought to New World by British colonies in 1600s  
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what is the world pattern of languages   migration, conquests, settlement, colonization, spreading, disappearing, domination, numbers, territory  
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how many Amerindian Tongues are there   1,000-2,000  
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what is domination of a language called   cultural imperialism  
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what is the dominator of a language called   assimilation  
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people who speak a common language   speech community  
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accepted standards of syntax (sentence structure), vocabulary, and pronunciation   standard language  
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who sets a standard language   leaders  
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what are standard (official) languages used for   literature, government, economy, trade, and education  
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recognizable speech variants   dialects  
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what are elements of a dialect   vocabulary, rhythm, pronunciation, speed  
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denote social class and educational level   social dialects/ socialect  
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what were dialects in America settled by   immigrants from MANY places; travel and interaction was frequent  
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what 3 dialects emerged in America   Northern, Midland, and Southern  
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as English diffuses to different countries, each location develops its own _________________ dialect. Due to the mixing of various _______________________ and its ______________________ from England.   unique; people; isolation This is why American's sound different than the British  
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the study of the character and spatial pattern of dialects and languages   linguistic geography  
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the outer limit of a language's territory- boundary between language groups   isogloss  
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able to speak 2 languages   bilingualism  
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able to speak more than 2 languages   multilingualism  
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an amalgamation (combination) of languages, usually a simplified form of one and borrowings from another   pidgin  
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is pidgin the mother tongue of any speaker   no  
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what is pidgin adequate to express   basic ideas  
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what 3 things does pidgin have   specific function, highly simplified grammar, sharply reduced vocabulary  
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evolves from an indigenous/ native group's language mixed with a conquering group's language   creole  
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what 2 languages make up Afrikaans   African and Dutch  
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is creole the native tongue of its speakers   yes  
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what 2 languages make up creole french   west african and french  
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what to languages make up franglais   french and english  
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what 2 languages make up spanglish   spanish and english  
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what 2 languages make up denglish   german and english  
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how many native speakers does english have today   375 million  
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how many ESL (English Second Language) speakers does english have today   375 million  
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how many total people speak english today   750 million  
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how many countries is english the official language of   60  
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what percentage of internet web pages worldwide are in english   78%  
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an established language used habitually for communication by people whose native tongues are mutually incomprehensible   lingua franca  
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what was the lingua franca in Ancient times (300 BC- 500 AD)   greek  
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what was the lingua franca in Early Middle Ages   latin  
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what was the lingua franca in Late Middle Ages   french  
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what was the lingua franca in modern times   english  
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english is the official language of several countries, meaning it is the language used by ______________ and __________________   business and government  
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having multiple official languages   polyglot state  
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what are examples of polyglot states   belgium, switzerland, canada  
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what does switzerland divide their country into   cantons  
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why are over 400 languages in existence today considered extinct   only a few elderly people know them  
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a languages survival is dependent upon the _____________________ and _____________________ strength of its speakers   political and military  
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what happens when people get conquered   their language goes away  
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when did Hebrew dinimish   around the 4th century  
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what happened when Israel was established   Jews from all over the world moved there  
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what 2 languages were chosen as Israel's official languages   Hebrew and Arabic  
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what did having 2 official languages in Israel do and how many new words did they have to create   helped unify the people and they created 4,000 new words  
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the Celt's language was diminished because they lacked _________________   military power  
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it is being revived by Britain's 1988 Educational Act which forces students to learn _________________ if they live in Wales   Welsh  
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unrelated to any other language and is not attached to a language family   isolated language  
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existed before Indo-European language and was preserved due to isolation in the Spanish Pyrenees mountains   Basque  
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most widely spoken language isolate with over 78 million speakers   Korean  
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