Quiz 6 Part 2 Flashcards
isolated language
a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
language group
collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the recent past and display few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
language
system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
Public housing
housing owned by the government, in the u.s., its rented to low income residents, and the rents are set at 30 percent of the families income.
Squatter Settlement
an area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures.
Market Area
the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the places goods and services.
stimulus diffusion
the spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
intervening obstacle
an environmental or cultural feature of a landscape that hinders migration.
Map
two dimensional, or flat, representation of earths surface or a portion of it.
literacy rate
percent of a countries people who can read and write.
language branch
collection of languages related through a common ancestor that exists thousands of years ago.
maquiladora
factories built buy the U.S. companies in Mexico near the U.S. border, to take advantage of much lower labor costs in mexico.
Isogloss
boundary that separate’s regions in which different language usages predominate.
language family
collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
lingua franca
language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
