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Chapter 6 Test

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