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backward reconstruction |
the tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants backward toward the original language natalie martinez |
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conquest theory |
one major theory of how proto-indo-european diffused into europe which holds that the early speakers of proto-indo- european spread westward on horseback overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of indo- european tongues natalie martinez |
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deep reconstruction |
technique using the vocab of an extinct language to re-create the language that proceeded the extinct language natalie martinez |
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dialects |
local or regional characteristics of a language natalie martinez |
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dispersal hypothesis |
hypothesis which holds that the Indo European languages that arose from Proto Indio European war purse carried east word into Southwest Asia next around the cup agency and then across the Russian Ukrainian planes and onto natalie martinez |
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Germanic languages |
Languages English German donation or weighing in Swedish that reflects the expansion of peoples out of northern Europe to the west and south Natalie Martinez |
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Global language |
The language used most commonly around the world defined on the basis of either the number of speakers of the language for the pre-valence of use and converse and treat or change it |
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Isogloss |
Geographic boundaries within a particular linguistic featuring cruz Natalie Martinez |
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Isogloss |
Geographic boundaries within a particular linguistic featuring cruz Natalie Martinez |
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Language |
Hey set up sound combination of sounds and symbols that are used for communication Natalie Martinez |
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Language convergence |
Collapsing of two languages into the resulting of a consistent spatial interaction of people with different languages Natalie Martinez |
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Language convergence |
Collapsing of two languages into the resulting of a consistent spatial interaction of people with different languages Natalie Martinez |
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Language divergence |
A process suggested by German linguist August Schlater whereby new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialect due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of the language and continued isolation Eventually causes the divisions of the languages into discrete new languages Natalie Martinez |
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Language convergence |
Collapsing of two languages into the resulting of a consistent spatial interaction of people with different languages Natalie Martinez |
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Language divergence |
A process suggested by German linguist August Schlater whereby new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialect due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of the language and continued isolation Eventually causes the divisions of the languages into discrete new languages Natalie Martinez |
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Language families |
Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin Natalie Martinez |
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Lingua Frances |
The language used among speakers of different languages for the purpose to trade and commerce Natalie Martinez |
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Monolingual states |
Countries in which only one language is spoken Natalie Martinez |
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Multilingual states |
Countries which more than one language is spoken |
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Mutual intelligibility |
The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking Natalie Martinez |
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Nostratic |
The language believe to be the ancestral language not only of Proto Indo-European but also the card to billion languages of the southern call cases region that you’re like I’ll take languages including hungry and finish Turkish and Mongolian the drug Vaden languages of Edith India and the Afro a steak it language family Natalie Martinez |
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Official language |
In multi lingual countries language selected opt in by the educated and politicians powerful elite promote the internal cohesion usually the language of the |
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Pigeon languages |
When parts of two or more languages a combined the simplified structure and vocabulary Natalie Martinez |
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Proto Indo-European |
Linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral Indo-European language that is the herd of ancient lights in Greek in Santo grit languages with her purse with a link modern languages |
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Romance language |
Language is French Spanish talion remaining in Portuguese that light in the areas that were once controlled by Roman empire but we’re not subsequentially overwhelmed |
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SlavicLanguages |
Languages Russian Polish city tax Lovick your Ukrainian Slovenian say about crochet in in Bulgarian that developed a sleeve of people migrated from a base in present day Ukrainian close to 2000 years ago |
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sound shift |
Slight change in Word across languages with the sub family through a language family or from the present backwards towards origin Natalie Martinez |
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Standard language |
The variant of a language that a countries partition intellectual elite seek to promote as a norm for use in schools government the media and other aspects of public like Natalie Martinez |
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SubFamilies |
Divisions within a language family where the origin come on to lead tees are more definite in origin is more recent Natalie Martinez |
