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25 Cards in this Set
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Backward reconstruction |
The tracking of sounds shifts and a hardening of consonants backward toward the original language |
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Conquest theory |
One major theory of how Proto Indo-European diffused into Europe which holds that the early speakers of Proto Indo European spread westward on horseback overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo European tongues |
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Deep reconstruction |
Technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to re-create the language that proceeded the extinct language |
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Dialects |
Local or regional characteristics of a language |
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Dispersal hypothesis |
Hypothesis which holds the Indo-European languages that arose from Proto Indo-European were first carried east word into south east west Asia next around the cast Spain see and then across the Russian Ukrainian planes and onto the Balkan |
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Germanic languages |
Languages that reflect the expansion of peoples owl of Northern Europe to the west and south |
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Global language |
The language used most commonly around the world defined on the basis of either number of speakers of the language or prevalence of use in commerce and trade |
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Isogloss |
A geographic boundary within a particular linguistic feature occurs |
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Language |
A set of sound combination of sounds and symbols that are used for communication |
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Language divergence |
A process suggested by German Lindquist August so I care where buy new languages are forms when I language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of the language and continued isolation eventually causes the division of the language into discrete new languages |
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Language convergence |
Collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages |
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Language families |
Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin |
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Lingua Franca |
Language used among speakers of different languages for the purpose of trade and commerce |
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Monolingual states |
Countries in which only one language is spoken |
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Multilingual states |
Countries in which more than one language is spoken |
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Mutual intelligibility |
The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking |
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Nostratic |
The language believed to be the ancestral language not only of Proto Indo-European but also of the heart Villien language of southern tacos Road region the Ehrlich I’d let Eric languages the day fed in languages of India and the Alfaro asiatic language of family |
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Official language |
The multi lingual countries the language selected often by the educated and politically powerful elite to promote internal cohesion usually the language of the courts and government |
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Pidgin languages |
One parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary |
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Proto Indo European |
Lynn who is stick hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral Indo-European language that is the Hirth of the ancient Latin Greek and Sanskrit languages which Hirth would link modern languages from Scandinavia to north Africa and from North America through parts of Asia to Australia |
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Romance languages |
Languages that lie in the areas that were once controlled by Roman empire but not subsequently overwhelmed |
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Slavic languages |
Languages that developed a Slavic people migrated from a base in present day Ukraine close to 2000 years ago |
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Sound shift |
Slight change in a word across languages within a sub family or through a language family from the present backwards toward its origin |
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Standard language |
The viral riant of a language at a country political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools government the media and other aspects of public life |
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Sub families |
Divisions within a language family where the call mentalities are more definite and the origin is more recent |
