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AP Human Geography Chapter 5: Geography of Language vocab

Terms in this set (28)

Accent
manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Esperanto
An artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages.
Extinct language
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
Ideograms
The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English.
Isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
Isolated language
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
Language branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family.
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.
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.
Language family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
Lingua franca
language used for business purpose
Literary tradition
A language that is written as well as spoken; system of written communication
Monolingual
Speaking only one language.
bilingual
Speaking two languages.
Multilingual
Speaking several languages.
Official language
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
Orthography
the conventional spelling system of a language
Pidgin language
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
Standard language
The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
toponym
name of a place
Trade language
A reconstructed language used especially in commercial communication
Vernacular
the language or dialect that is most widely spoken by ordinary people in a region or country.
Creole
more complex pidgin language
Franglais
A combination of French and English
Spanglish
Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans.
denglish
mix of german and english
ebonics
dialect spoken by some African americans
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