AP Human Geography Quiz: Language

What is the linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral Indo-European language?

• Proto-Indo-European

• Slavic Language

• Nostratic

• Lingua Franca

Which languages developed as Slavic people migrated from a base in present-day Ukraine?

• Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukranian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian

• Proto-Indo-European

• Romance languages

• Germanic Languages

What are language families?

• Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin

• Divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent

• Technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to re-create the language that preceded the extinct language

• Languages that lie in the areas once controlled by the Roman Empire but were not subsequently overwhelmed

What are subfamilies?

• Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin

• Divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent

• Technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to re-create the language that preceded the extinct language

• Languages that lie in the areas once controlled by the Roman Empire but were not subsequently overwhelmed

What is deep reconstruction?

• Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin

• Divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent

• Technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to re-create the language that preceded the extinct language

• Languages that lie in the areas once controlled by the Roman Empire but were not subsequently overwhelmed

What is Nostratic?

• Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin

• Divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent

• Language believed to be the ancestral language of Proto-Indo-European

• Languages that lie in the areas once controlled by the Roman Empire but were not subsequently overwhelmed

What is the definition of language?

• The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way

• A relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without intentional study or special effort

• A language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse

• The language used most commonly around the world

What is mutual intelligibility?

• The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way

• A relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without intentional study or special effort

• A language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse

• The language used most commonly around the world

What is a standard language?

• The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way

• A relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without intentional study or special effort

• A language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse

• A language used most commonly around the world

What is a global language?

• The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way

• A relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without intentional study or special effort

• A language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse

• The language used most commonly around the world