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AP Human Geo

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Language   a set of sounds and symbols that are used for communication  
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Mutual intelligibility   ability of two people to understand each other when speaking  
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Standard language   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   variants of a standard language along regional or ethic lines  
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Dialect chain   a group of contiguous dialects where the dialects nearest to each other geographically are the most similar and the dialects further apart are least similar  
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Isogloss   a geographic boundary where linguistic features occur  
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Language family   group of languages with a shared but distant origin  
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Language subfamilies   divisions within a language family where commonalities are more definite are the origin is more recent  
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Cognate   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 languages  
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Language divergence   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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Backward reconstruction   tracking sound shifts and hardening consonants backward to uncover an original language  
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Language convergence   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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Extinct language   language without any native speakers  
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Conquest Theory   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-Europeans tongues  
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Agriculture Theory   the theory that Proto-Indo-European language spread with the diffusion of agriculture  
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Vernacular   a language used in everyday interaction among a group of people in a local area  
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Lingua franca   language used for trade or cultural interaction among people who speak different languages  
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Pidgin language   combination of two or more languages in a simplified structure and vocabulary  
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Creole language   a language that begins as a pidgin language and was later adopted as the mother tongue of a people  
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Toponym   place name  
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