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AP Hum Geo Ch6

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language   show
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mutual intelligibility   show
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standard language   show
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show Local or regional characteristics of a language. While accent refers to the pronunciation differences of a standard language, a dialect, in addition to pronunciation variation, has distinctive grammar and vocabulary.  
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isogloss   show
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language family   show
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show Divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent.  
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Proto-Indo-European (language)   show
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backward reconstruction   show
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show Language without any native speakers.  
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language divergence   show
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language convergence   show
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show One major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe which holds that the early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European ton  
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Romance languages   show
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show Languages (English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) that reflect the expansion of peoples out of Northern Europe to the west and south.  
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show Languages (Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian) that developed as Slavic people migrated from a base in present-day Ukraine close to 2000 years ago.  
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lingua franca   show
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pidgin language   show
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show A language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the mother tongue.  
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monolingual states   show
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multilingual states   show
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show The language used most commonly around the world; defined on the basis of either the number of speakers of the language, or prevalence of use in commerce and trade.  
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show The fourth theme of geography as defined by the Geography Educational National Implementation Project; uniqueness of location.  
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show Place name.  
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