unit 3 quiz 3
Terms
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- monoglots
- knowing only one language
- lingua franca
- any of the various auxiliary languages used as common tounges among people of an area where several languages are spoken (literally "frankish language")
- linguistic refugee areas
- an area protected by isolation or inhospitable environmental conditions in which a language or dialect has survived
- agriculture theory
- with increased food supply and increased population, speakers from the hearth of indo-european languages migrated into europe
- 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
- language replacement
- the replacing of a language
- multilingual states
- a state or country that uses many languages
- shatter belts
- an area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultual values
- creole
- a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages
- renfrew hypothesis
- three areas in and around fertile crescent, gave rise to three language families
- language branch
- a collection of languages related through a common ancestor (differences aren't as extensive or as old as laguage families)
- standard language
- a language substantially uniform with respect of doing spelling, grammar and pronunciation correctly representing a community
- toponyms
- name of a place
- language convergence
- collapsing of two languages into one
- ideograms
- the system of writing used in china and other east asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather then a specific sound, as is the case with the letters of english
- conquest theory
- theory of how proto-inko european speakers spread into europe by going westword on hourseback
- language divergence
- new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects
- isolated language
- a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attatched to any language family
- monolingual states
- countries or states that only speak one language
- language
- the system of words, pronunciation, methods of communication used and mutually understood by individuals in a community
- language family/group
- large groups of languages having similar roots
- isoglosses
- a mapped boundry line marking the limits of a particular linguistic feature
- polyglot
- a person who speaks more then one language
- official language
- a governmentally designated language for instructions on government, court, and other public and private sommunication
- dialect
- a language variant marked by vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation differences with in a common language
- generic toponyms
- the description part of many okace-names, often repeated throughout a culture area
- reverse reconstruction
- to reverse any reconstruction attempt