FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

LANGUAGE EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -15 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert- Explanation

Question 1: LANGUAGE

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a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning

Question 2: LINGUA FRANCA

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a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

Question 3: CREOLE

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a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

Question 4: LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY

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the occurance of numerous languages that are spoken around the world

Question 5: MONOLINGUAL/MULTILINGUAL

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capable of communication in one (mono) language and (multi) capable of communication in more than one language, but not necessarily at the same level of proficiency

Question 6: LANGUAGE SUBFAMILY

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a smaller group of languages within the language family that are related to one another through a common ancestor long before recorded history

Question 7: ISOGLOSS

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a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate

Question 8: LANGUAGE FAMILY

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a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

Question 9: LANGUAGE GROUP

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a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatibely few differences in grammar and vocabulary

Question 10: OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

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an official language is a language that is given a unique legal status in the countries, states, and other territories

Question 11: TRADE LANGUAGE

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also a pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of two or more languages as a means of trade

Question 12: DIALECT

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a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation

Question 13: PIDGIN

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a simplified, limited language combining features from many languages and used among persons who share no common language amongst themselves

Question 14: TOPONYMY

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the scientific study of place-names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use and typology

Question 15: INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

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germanic, romance, balto-slavic, and indo-iranian languages are all part of the same indo-european language family and they all have commmon roots