APHG Ch.9 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| sound shifts | analysis in which the diversification of language has long been charted through. |
| deep reconstruction | The notion to recreate the language that preceded another particular language. |
| William Jones | discovered the vocabulary and grammatical forms of the Sanskrit language bore a resemblance to ancient Greek and Latin. |
| Jacob Grimm | suggested that sound shifts might prove the relationships between languages in a scientific manner. |
| (Proto) Indo-European | a closely related group of languages |
| August Schleicher | German linguist that was the first scholar to compare the world language families to the branches of a tree. |
| Language Divergence | the differentiation of language over time and space. |
| language convergence | the similarities of languages regardless of time and space |
| language replacement | When languages of "lesser" peoples has been replaced, or greatly modified, by the languages of the invaders. |
| Conquest Theory | 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. |
| Agriculture Theory | The spread of agriculture diffused the Proto-Indo-European language through Europe; proposed by Luca Cavilla-Sforza and Robert Ammerman |
| Vladislav Illich-Syilych and Aharan Dolgopolsky | Individually attempted to reconstruct the language that was ancestral to Proto-Indo-European language. |
| Nostratic | Named by Vladislav Illich-Syilych and Aharan Dolgopolsky as the ancestral language to Proto-Indo-European. |
| Austroresian | arose from the Austro-Tai language family. |
| Malayo-Polynesian | A dialect of Austroresian and became a forerunner of a large number of language |
| Fijian | A discrete Malayo-Polynesian offshoot. |
| Polynesian | Derivative of Malayo-Polynesian and is spoken by the Maori people of New Zealand |
| The Greenberg Hypothesis | 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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