Key terms in Chapter 8 of text by de Blij/Murphy
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| Preliterate Societies | peoples who speak their language but do not write it.
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| Linguistic Diversification | the differences among people speaking separate languages.
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| language | a systematic means of communicating ideas of feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, gestures, marks, or especially articulate vocal sounds.
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| standard language | likely to be used in technologically advanced societies; its quality is a matter of cultural identity and national concern.
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| dialects | regional variants of a standard language
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| isoglosses | geographic boundaries within which a particular linguistic feature occurs.
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| language family | group of languages thought to have a shared, but fairly distant, origin.
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| language subfamily | language group with a more definite commonality
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| language group | divisions of subfamilies that consist of sets of individual languages
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| Indo-European | Language family that is spoken by about half the world's population
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