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26 Cards in this Set
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Language |
A system of communication that persons withing a community use to convey ideas and emotions. |
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Linguistics |
The study of language |
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Geolinguistics |
the intersection of both geography and linguistics |
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Dialect |
A way that people detect a similar language compared to their own. Distinguished by different word choices |
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Mutual Intelligibility |
the ability for 2+ people to understand one another. |
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Accent |
the way people pronounce words |
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Pidgin Language |
simplified versions of a language or several languages that help people communicated found often around borders and in former colonies |
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Creole Language |
when pidgin language results in its own native tongue mostly unofficial languages |
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The major world families are: |
Indo-european Sino-Tibetan Afro-Asiatic Niger-Congo |
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Orthography |
a writing system that has a complex relationship to the spoken language |
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3 Sino-Tibetan sub-languages: |
Chinese Mandarin Chinese Cantonese |
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Indo-European sub-language |
The Romance Languages: Spanish Vulgar Latin (a language used by commoners) Portuguese Italian French Romanian ...+ |
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Germanic Language |
Dominates Northern Europe, English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavia |
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Linguistic Isolation |
When a language in areas that are isolated from other influences remains the same; usually unique |
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The best example of linguistic isolation |
Basque |
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Language and War |
Alliances are typically formed among countries that speak the same, or similar, language |
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Anschluss |
the process of uniting German speaking Austria with Germany in 1938 |
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American Dialects |
Depends on what part of the country you are from |
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Main folk culture dialects |
Northeaster: Yankee Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West: Midland South: Upland (Appalachian), Lowland |
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Ethnicity and Dialect |
These 2 both go hand-in-hand and one can be used to identify the other Both are products of peculiar spatial experiences |
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Hybridizing |
Blending of old and new languages and dialects |
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Ebonics |
African American Vernacular English |
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Mentifacts |
Spoken languages, like songs, jokes and other intangible elements of culture |
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Toponyms |
words used to name places |
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Appeal to Snobbery |
Businesses who use toponymy to market a place as upscale or "exotic" |
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Languages and the Environment |
Languages adapting to fit the needs of describing their environment Might affect the way something sounds |
