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Ap human geography

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show A set of sounds and symbols that are used for communication  
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show Ability of two people to understand each other when speaking  
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show 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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Dialect   show
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Dialect chain   show
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show A geographic boundary where linguistic features occur  
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Language family   show
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show divisions within a language family where commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent  
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show A word in one language that shares its origin with a word in another language. They have similar meanings and spellings and show shared origins and connections among languages  
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language divergence   show
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show tracking sound shifts and hardening consonants backward to uncover an original language  
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language convergence   show
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show language with no native speakers  
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show 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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show the theory that Proto-Indo European language spread with the diffusion of agriculture  
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Vernacular   show
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Lingua franca   show
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show Combination of two or more languages in a simplified structure and vocabulary  
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show a language that began as a pidgin language and was later adopted as the mother tongue of a people.  
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show Place name  
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