AP Human Geography. Language
Accent - answer a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to
indicate a special pronunciation
Dialect - answer a regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary,
grammar, and pronunciation; also, a form of a language spoken by members of a
particular social class or profession
Esperanto - answer an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to
all the European languages
Extinct Language - answer A language that was once used by people in daily activities
but is no longer used.
Ideogram - answer symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word
Isolated Language - answer A language that is unrelated to any other languages and
therefore not attached to any language family.
Official Language - answer The language adopted for use by the government for the
conduct of business and publication of documents.
Pidgin Language - answerA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and
limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two
different languages.
Toponym - answerplace name
Vernacular - answerthe everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary
language)
Creole Language - answerA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's
language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Language Branch - answerA collection of languages related through a common
ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
Language - answera system of words used in a particular discipline
Language Group - answera set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and
many similar characteristics
Accent - answer a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to
indicate a special pronunciation
Dialect - answer a regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary,
grammar, and pronunciation; also, a form of a language spoken by members of a
particular social class or profession
Esperanto - answer an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to
all the European languages
Extinct Language - answer A language that was once used by people in daily activities
but is no longer used.
Ideogram - answer symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word
Isolated Language - answer A language that is unrelated to any other languages and
therefore not attached to any language family.
Official Language - answer The language adopted for use by the government for the
conduct of business and publication of documents.
Pidgin Language - answerA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and
limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two
different languages.
Toponym - answerplace name
Vernacular - answerthe everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary
language)
Creole Language - answerA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's
language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Language Branch - answerA collection of languages related through a common
ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
Language - answera system of words used in a particular discipline
Language Group - answera set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and
many similar characteristics
