GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Isogloss, Nostratic Languages, Language Convergence
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Models/theories: what to know invasion and succession examples. Why violence erupts in places like s central la and ferguson, mo identities at different scales. A set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication. The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking. The variant of a language that a country"s political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for the use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life. In multilingual countries the language selected, often by the educated and politically powerful elite, to promote internal cohesion. Local or regional characteristics of a language. A set of contagious dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related isogloss. A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs language families. Group of languages with a shared but fairly different origin.
