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language
a set of sound and symbol used for communication
mutual intelligibility
ability of 2 people to understand each other when speaking
standard language
variant of language that a countrys political and intellectual elite seek to promote
dialect
local or regional characteristic of language
dialect chains
a set of contagious dialects
isogloss
geograpgic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occur
language family
group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin
subfamilies
family where the commonalities are more definite
sound shift
slight change in a word across languages
proto indo european
linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral indo european language
backward reconstruction
sound shifts and hardening of consonants backward toward the original lamguage
extinct language
language without any native speakers
deep reconstruction
technique using tye vocabulary of an extinct language
nostratic
language believed to be the ancestral language not only of proto indo european but also the kartvelian language
language divergence
language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction
language convergence
collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction
conquest theory
theory of how proto indo european diffused into europe which holds that the early speakers of proto indo european spread
dispersal hypothesis
hypothesis which holds that the indo european languages that arose from pronto indo european were first carried eastward into southwest asia
romamce language
french, spanish, italian that lie the areas were once controlled by yhe roman empire
germanic language
english, german that reflects the expansion of peoples out of northern europe
slavic languages
russian, polish that developed as slavic people migrated from a base in present day ukraine
lingua franca
term deriving from frankish lamguage and applying to a tongue spoken in ancient mediterranean
pidgin language
parts of two or more langauge are combined in simplified structure
creole language
began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people
monolingual state
countries which only one language is spoken
multilingual state
countries more than one language
official language
language selected often by the educated and politically powerful elite
global language
used mos commonly around the world
place
uniqueness of a location
toponym
place name