AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: LANGUAGE
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
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 - Answer-A 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 - Answer-place name
Vernacular - Answer-the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary
language)
Creole Language - Answer-A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's
language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Language Branch - Answer-A collection of languages related through a common
ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
Language - Answer-a system of words used in a particular discipline
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
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 - Answer-A 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 - Answer-place name
Vernacular - Answer-the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary
language)
Creole Language - Answer-A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's
language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Language Branch - Answer-A collection of languages related through a common
ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
Language - Answer-a system of words used in a particular discipline
