Chapter 8 Lanuage Flashcards

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why cant Mutual intelligibility be measured

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lanuages would not be compatable because of dialects

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What is mutual intelligibility

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Two people can understand each other When speaking

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Standard language

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Widely distributed published purposefully taught

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dilects

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Differences in vocabulary pronunciation syntax cadence

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4
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what influenced Madagascar lang

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isolation preserved sw asian influnce

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indo proto european

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the mother of latin sanskirt, greek

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The conquest theory

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European spread from conquering ppl

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What is the agricultural thorey

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Early speakers moved westward with the diffusion of agriculture site which means he was completely penetrated the European frontier in 1500 years has evidence through genes

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Dispersal hypothesis

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First carried eastward into Southwest Asia around the Caspian Sea it across the brush in Ukraine planes and into the Balkans
Hearth was Antonia

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9
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What language is completely different than other European languages

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basque language

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10
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Germanic languages examples

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English German Danish Norwegian Swedish

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Romance languages example

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Italian Spanish French Romanian Portuguese

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Slavic languages which is examples

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Russian polis check Silva Ukrainian Slovenian Serbo-Croatian Bulgarian

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13
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What correlation is between language and politics

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Shows down trees between countries

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Lingua franca

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A common language use among speakers of a different language and purposes for trade and commerce

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Pigeon language

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When people combined two or more languages with simplified structure and vocabulary

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Creole lang

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Pigeon language that developed a more complex structure and vocabulary I’ve become the native language of a group of people

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toponyms

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place names

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oppenheimer thory

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The hearth of proto-Indo lang which is in India

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renfrew theroy

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The resources of agriculture gave rise to three major languages

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language

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A set of sounds and symbols used for communication

21
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isogloss

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a geographic boundary where a particular linguistic feature occurs