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9th Grade
12/19/2013
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Language

 

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the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
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Dialect

 

 Definition

the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

 
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Language Family

 Definition
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
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Language Subfamily

 Definition
a smaller group of related languages within a language family
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Language Group

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A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
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Isogloss

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A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
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Preliterate Society

 Definition
Societies with out a written language
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Standard Language

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The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
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Indo-European Languages

 Definition
Languages influenced by Indian language.
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Language convergence

 Definition
collapsing of two language into one
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Language divergence

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new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects
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Language replacement

 Definition
Replacing a language
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Sound Shifts

 Definition
The diversification of languages
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Deep reconstruction

 Definition
process by which an extinct language is recreated
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Proto Indo-European

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The product of an Indo-European language or dialect.
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Nostratic

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hypothesized ancestral language of Proto-Indo-European, as well as other ancestral language families.
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Na-Dene

 Definition
family of indigenous American languages. Second oldest & largest family. Less widely diffused.
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Amerind

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any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
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Eskimo-Aleut

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concentrated along arctic and near-Arctic shore.
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