Linguistic Concepts Quiz

A country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life.

• Language Family

• Standard Language

• Slavic Languages

• Language

A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs.

• Toponym

• Lingua Franca

• Creole Language

• Isogloss

Defined on the basis of either the number of speakers of the language, or prevalence of use in commerce or and trade.

• Dialect

• Language Family

• Global Language

• Place

Divisions within a language where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent.

• Subfamilies

• Lingua Franca

• Proto-Indo-European

• Dialect

An educated guess which holds that the Indo-European languages that arose from Proto-Indo_european were first carried eastward into Southwest Asia, around the Caspian Sea, the Russian-Ukrainian plain and on into the Balkans.

• Global Language

• Extinct Language

• Dialect

• Dispersal Hypothesis

A set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication.

• Creole Language

• Proto-Indo-European

• Conquest Theory

• Language

Derived from the 'Frankish Language' and applying to a tongue spoken in ancient Mediterranean Ports that consisted of several European and some Arabic languages.

• Extinct Language

• Toponym

• Monolingual States

• Lingua Franca

The fourth theme of geography as defined by the GENIP as the uniqueness of a location.

• Deep Reconstruction

• Nostratic

• Place

• Toponym

When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary.

• Pidgin Language

• Deep Reconstruction

• Slavic Languages

• Language

Slight change in a word across languages within a sub-family or through a language family from the present backward toward it in its origin.

• Isogloss

• Sound Shift

• Standard Language

• Monolingual States