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AP HUG P. 146-153

Terms in this set (18)

Language
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
Institutional language
A language used in education, work, mass media, and government
Official language
The language for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
Literary tradition
A language that is written as well as spoken
Developing language
A language that is spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed
Vigorous language
A language that is spoken in daily use but lacks a literary traditon
Language family
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
Language branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence
Language group
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
What are the traits that distinguish cultural values
language, religion, and ethnicity
What is a strong evidence of migration from one of the locations to another
shared family language
What is the most obvious example of cultural diversity
Earth's heterogeneous collection of languages
What does ethnologue classify languages as
institutional, developing, vigorous, in trouble, and dying
What are the two language families with the most speakers
Indo- European and Sino-Tibetan
What are the three longest families of Southeast Asia
Austronesian, Austro-Asiatic, and Tai-Kadai
What are the two most widely used language families outside of China
Japan and Korean
What two words are the principal sources for creating new words to describe new technology and concepts
Chinese and Japanese
Where are the 3rd and 4th largest language families based in
Africa: Afro-Asiatic in North Africa and Niger-Congo in sub Saharan Africa
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