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| a group of languages thought to have descended from a single, common, ancestral tongue. |
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| a language substantially uniform with respect to spelling, grammar, pronounciation and vocabulary, and representing the approved community norm of the tongue |
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| a governmental designated language. used in courts, law, etc. |
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| obvious. social dialect, geographical dialects, etc. |
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| an auxililary language derived, with reduced vocabulary and simplified structure, from other languages. not a native tongue, it is used for limited communication among people with different languages. |
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| a language developed from a pidgin to become the native language of a society. |
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| any of various auxililary languages used as common tonuges among people of an area where several different languages are spoken. |
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| a mapped boundary line marking the limits of a particular linguistic feature |
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| the place names of a region, or especially the study of place names |
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| a measurement of the numbers of persons per unit area of land within predetermined limits, usually political or census boundaries. |
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| the number of people per unit area of land...same as arithmetic density |
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| the number of persons per unit area of cultivable land |
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| the number of rural residents per unit of agriculturally productive land; a variant of physiological density that excludes urban population |
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| the ratio of the number of live births during one year to the total population, usually at the midpoint of the same year, expressed as the number of births per year per 1000 population |
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| a mortality index usually calculated as the number of deaths per year per 1000 population |
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| the average number of children that would be born to each woman if during her childbearing years she bore children at the current year's rate for women that age |
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| a refinement of the death rate to specify the ratio of deaths of infants age 1 year or less per 1000 births |
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| a bar graph in pyramid form showing the age and sex composition of a population, usually a national one |
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| birth rate minus the death rate, suggesting the annual rate of population growth without considering net migration |
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| the time period required for any beginning total experiencing a compounding growth to double in size |
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| the demographic transition |
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| a model of the effect of economic development on population growth. a first stage involves stable numbers with high birth rates and death rates; the second displays high birth rates, falling death rates, and population increases. stage three shows reduction in population growth as birth rates decline to the level of death rates. the fourth and final stage again implies a population stable in size but with larger numbers than at the start of the transition process. an idealized summary of population history of industrializing europe, its application to newly developing countries is questioned. |
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| a capital city deliberately sited in a state's frontier zone. |
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| a state whose territory is identical to that occupied by a particular ethnic group or nation |
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| the policy of a state wishing to incorporate within itself territory inhabited by people who have ethnic or linguistic links with the country but that lies within a neighboring state |
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