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Ap chapter 6 vocab
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Geography
9th Grade
01/03/2010

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language
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is a set of sounds, combinations of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication.
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standard language
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one that is published, widely distributed, and purposely taught. usually technologically advanced societies have.
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dialects
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variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines.
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isogloss
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geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs, but such a boundary is rarely a simple line.
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mutual intelligibility
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means that two people can under stand each other when speaking.
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dialect chains
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distributed across space, and is how linguist think about dialects
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language families
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language classified at a global scale
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subfamilies
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where commonalities are more definite and the origins is more recent.(divisions within a language family)
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sound shift
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is a slight change in the word across languages within a subfamily or through a language family from the present backward toward its origin.
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proto-indo-european
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hearth of ancient latin, greek, and sanskrit. from jones notions and grimms ideas
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backward reconstruction
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technique used to track sound shifts and hardening of the consonants "backwards" toward the original language.
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extinct language
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a language without any native speakers
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deep reconstruction
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when u go and re-create the language that preceded it
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nosratic
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proto indo european ancient ancestor
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language divergence
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where a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of a language breads the language into dialects and then continued isolation divides the language into discrete languages.
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language convergence
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when two languages into one
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