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APHG Ch.9 Test

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Language Divergence
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Malayo-Polynesian
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August Schleicher
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language convergence
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Austroresian
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Vladislav Illich-Syilych and Aharan Dolgopolsky
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Jacob Grimm
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Fijian
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William Jones
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the differentiation of language over time and space.
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suggested that sound shifts might prove the relationships between languages in a scientific manner.
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discovered the vocabulary and grammatical forms of the Sanskrit language bore a resemblance to ancient Greek and Latin.
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German linguist that was the first scholar to compare the world language families to the branches of a tree.
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arose from the Austro-Tai language family.
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Individually attempted to reconstruct the language that was ancestral to Proto-Indo-European language.
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the similarities of languages regardless of time and space
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A discrete Malayo-Polynesian offshoot.
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A dialect of Austroresian and became a forerunner of a large number of language
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Derivative of Malayo-Polynesian and is spoken by the Maori people of New Zealand
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The Proto-Indo-European language family was spread through the conquest of neighboring states, and as they were conquered they adopted the conquering state's language.
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Named by Vladislav Illich-Syilych and Aharan Dolgopolsky as the ancestral language to Proto-Indo-European.
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The spread of agriculture diffused the Proto-Indo-European language through Europe; proposed by Luca Cavilla-Sforza and Robert Ammerman
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analysis in which the diversification of language has long been charted through.
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a closely related group of languages
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When languages of "lesser" peoples has been replaced, or greatly modified, by the languages of the invaders.
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Proposed by Joseph Greenberg that there are three families of indigenous American languages and each correspond to migration flows into the Western Hemisphere.
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The notion to recreate the language that preceded another particular language.

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