AP Human Geography Vocab Chapter 6

language

culture

standard language

dialects

isogloss

mutual intelligibility

dialect chains

language families

subfamilies

sound shift

Proto-Indo-European

backward reconstruction

extinct language

deep reconstruction

language divergence

language convergence

Renfrew hypothesis

conquest theory

dispersal hypothesis

Romance languages

Germanic languages

Slavic languages

lingua franca

pidgin language

Creole language

monolingual states

countries in which only one language is spoken

multilingual states

countries in which more than one language is in use

official language

global language

place

the fourth theme of Geography as defined by the GENIP; uniqueness of a location

toponym

place name