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9 Cards in this Set
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synthetic language
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relies on morphemes to indicate relationships between words
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analytic language
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relies on sentence structure and word order
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external change
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a human behavior such as voting that creates an internal change in the language
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internal change
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a change such as grammatical use of a word or a morpheme
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cognates
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words from various languages that share form and meaning
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decay
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words losing the distinct pronunciations they once had
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onomastics
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study of names and naming
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Danelaw
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treaty that geographically divided England
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external history
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the political, religious, intellectual, social and other kinds of events that change the identity of a language community
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