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15 Cards in this Set
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language
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system of communication through speech
a collection of sounds that a group of people understand to have the same meaning. |
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literary tradition
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system of written communication.
not all languages have it, making them hard to document. |
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isogloss
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word-usage boundaries.
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language family
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collection of languages that came through a common ancestor existed long before recorded history.
indo-European is most common. |
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language branch
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located within a language family
related through a common ancestor that existed a few thousand years ago. |
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language group
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within a language branch.
share a common origin, have a lot grammatically in common, are not too far apart from one another. |
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vulgar latin
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Latin spoken by the masses, standard.
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creole, or creolized language
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language that results from the mixing of the original language with the language of the people who took over the land.
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indo-European
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most common
fifty percent of people speak it English is an example |
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Sino-Tibetan
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twenty percent of people speak this
Chinese [which is the second most common language] is an exmple of this. |
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Afro-Asiatic
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in the middle east.
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Austronesian
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southeast Asia
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Niger-Congo
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Africa
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Dravidian
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in India
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ideograms
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mainly used in Chinese
don't stand for spelling or pronunciation, but for the concept itself. |
