WorksheetsAP Human Geography Quiz: Language
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
What is a toponym?
Place name
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 the Conquest Theory?
One major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe
Hypothesis which holds that the Indo-European languages that arose from Proto-Indo-European were first carried eastward into Southwest Asia
Slight change in a word across languages within a sub-family or through a language family from the present backward toward its origin
The collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages
What is the Dispersal Hypothesis?
One major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe
Hypothesis which holds that the Indo-European languages that arose from Proto-Indo-European were first carried eastward into Southwest Asia
Slight change in a word across languages within a sub-family or through a language family from the present backward toward its origin
The collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages
What is a sound shift?
One major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe
Hypothesis which holds that the Indo-European languages that arose from Proto-Indo-European were first carried eastward into Southwest Asia
Slight change in a word across languages within a sub-family or through a language family from the present backward toward its origin
The collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages
What is language convergence?
One major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe
Hypothesis which holds that the Indo-European languages that arose from Proto-Indo-European were first carried eastward into Southwest Asia
The collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages
The opposite of language convergence, languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers and continued isolation eventually causes the division of the language into discrete new languages
