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31 Cards in this Set
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which is not true of Quebec?
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it is almost 100% French speaking.
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in technically advanced societies there is likely to be
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a standard language.
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there are__principal language families of the world.
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20
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the language most widely used as a second language by hundreds of millions of people in India, Africa and else where is
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English
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Latin octo (eight) became Italian otto, Spanish ocho, and French huit. Thus is an example of________over time in a language family.
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sound shift
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two Russian scholars have established the core of what they believe is a pre-proto-Indo-European language named.
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Nostratic
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The language tree diagram of language divergence has some branches with dead ends. These represent
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extinct languages
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The proto-Indo-European language homeland lies some where of the
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Black sea
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Which country listed below has language witch is not in the Indo-European family?
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Hungary
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The linguistic map of Nigeria reflects extreme fragmentation with nearly____languages spoken.
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400
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Nigeria chose_________as its official language upon independence.
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English
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A language that is the product of a process of convergence which allows speakers of two or more languages to communicate is?
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a lingua france
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Convergence processes yielding a synthesis of several languages produce a pidgin language. When this language becomes the first language of a population it is referred to as a?
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Creole language
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Countries in which more than one language are in use are called?
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multilingual
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The systematic study of the origin and meaning of place names is called?
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toponymy
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The greatest concentration of streets memorializing Martin Luther King are found in:
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the south, especially Georgia
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The naming of a sport stadiums and other facilities for corporations (e.g. Petco park FedEx Field, Coors Field) is an example of?
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commodification
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dialect
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multilingual
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states a country in which more that one language is in use.
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monolingual
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a country in which only one language is spoken.
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toponym
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lingua franca
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a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce.
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mutual intelligibility
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means two people can understand each other when speaking.
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pidgin language
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a language created when people combine parts of two or more languages into a simplified structure and vocab
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creole language
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a piggin language that has developed more complete structure and vocab and has become the Native language
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commodification
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the process through which something given monetary value
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list three places where there are political conflicts connected to language for each place explain what the conflict is
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?
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do you think there will ever be a global language if so what language will it be and why
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i think spanish because so many spanish people that come to the U.S.A
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why do geographers study toponyms what can be learned from them
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this is why they study toponyms so they can find the history of a state or town and the famous people that live there.
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how do languages diffuse
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they convergence when people with different languages have consistent spatial interaction and their languages collapse into one
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what type of languages can be formed when several languages converge
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