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| A country or place where more than one language is spoken. |
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| A language based on Latin and words from modern European languages which tried to become an artificial tongue. |
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| The lingua france the original pidgin became. |
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| Over time a pidgin language may itself become the mother tongue as the original language of its speakers are forgotten. |
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| The systematic study of place-names. |
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| Emerged from the need for people speaking different languages to find was to communicate or trade. |
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| A language that will enhance communication and interaction among peoples who speak different traditional languages. |
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| Places where only one language is spoken. |
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| A language that through contact with other languages is simplified and modified. |
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| Regional variant of a standard language. |
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| A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs. |
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| A group of people who speak their language but do not write it. |
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| A variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, media, and other aspects of public use. |
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| The spreading of people and different changes in the language. |
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| Linguistic Diversification |
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| The most widely dispersed language family which is spoken by one-half the world's people. |
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| Indo-European Language Family |
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| A group of languages that have shared, fairly distinct, origins. |
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| A theory that opposed the conquest theory and proposed a source area of Anatolia in modern day Turkey. |
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| The oldest, largest, and most widely distributed family of indigenous American languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg. |
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| A part of the Austro-Tai family. |
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| A theory of language dispersal in Europe that opposed the Agriculture Theory which proposed a source area North of the Black Sea. |
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| A technique of looking back on a language family to find its linguistic origins. |
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| The last family of indigenous American languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg to arrive in North America. |
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| What the diversification of language has been charted through analysis of. |
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| When two languages collide after a long time of separation. |
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| Differentiation of languages over time and space. |
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| When languages of traditional, smaller, and technologically less advanced people have been replaced, modified, by invading languages. |
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| A dialect of Austronesian spoken by the Miori of New Zealand, Madagascar, Melanesia, and Micronesia. |
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| The second oldest and largest family of indigenous American languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg. |
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| An ancestral/ancient language of Indo-European. |
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| Proto-Indo-European Language |
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| Another derivative of the branch of Malayo-Polynesian. |
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| The core of the Pre-Proto-Indo-European-Language. |
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| The cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which the forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning. |
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| A person who farms for only himself or neighboring locals. |
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| A food source used before agriculture was developed which gathered food from outside sources. |
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| Activities that extract something from the Earth. |
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| Activities that involve the conversion of raw materials into intermediate or finished products. |
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| Activities that produce service industries. |
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| Activities that involve research in higher education. |
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| Activities that involve and exchange of money or capital. |
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| The first effort to analyze spacial character of economic activity. Involved rings. |
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| Applying simple, agricultural techniques, which allowed humans to increase the carrying capacity of the earth, and changed human understanding. The beginning of a new era of development and modernization. |
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| 1st Agricultural Revolution |
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| During the 17th and 18th century and happened significantly in Europe which worked with the Industrial Revolution. |
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| 2nd Agricultural Revolution |
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| A separation of the land which used natural features to demarcate irregular parcels of land. |
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| A system that divided land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals. |
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| A system that divided land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals. |
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| A related influence on patterns of settlement and land use that declines property lines. |
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| A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior. |
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| Township and Range System |
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| A system where the eldest son in a family or in exceptional cases, daughter inherits all of a dying parents land. |
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| A type of dwelling where the layout construction, and appearance haven't been altered by external influences over the past century. |
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| Unchanged-Traditional Dwellings |
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| A type of dwelling where there are new materials or elements that do not change original structures. |
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| Modified-Traditional Dwellings |
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| A type of dwelling where elements persist but modernization overtakes tradition. |
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| Modernized-Traditional Dwellings |
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| A type of dwelling where advanced technology, upward mobility, practicality, comfort, hygiene, and large scale urbanization take over. |
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| A type of U.S. traditional house which is wood framed, sometimes called a "saltbox". |
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| A type of U.S. traditional house which originated as a one-room log cabin with a stone chimney and fireplace and later rooms, a porch, and 2nd floor were added. |
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| A type of U.S. traditional house with one story, a porch, and was built on a raised platform and raised stone fountains. |
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| A general term for a large-scale, mechanized industrial agriculture that is controlled by corporate interests. |
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| When cash crops are grown on large estates. |
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| A type of specialized farming that occurs only where the dry summer Mediterranean prevails. |
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| Mediterranean Agriculture |
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| The successful recent development of higher-yield, fast growing varieties of rise and other cereals. |
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| Tea, cacao, coffee, tobacco, things people enjoy. |
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