GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fertile Crescent, Centrifugal Force, South Slavic Languages
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Hypothesis developed by british scholar colin renfrew wherein he proposed that three areas in and near the first agricultural hearth, the fertile crescent, gave rise to three language families: europe"s indo-european languages; North american and arabian languages; and the languages in present-day. Languages that lie in the areas that were once controlled by the roman empire but were not subsequently overwhelmed. Languages that reflect the expansion of peoples out of northern europe to west and south. Languages that developed as slavic people migrated from a base in present- day ukraine close to 2000 years ago lingua franca. A term deriving from frankish language and applying to a tongue spoken in ancient mediterranean ports that consisted of a mixture of italian, french, greek spanish, and even some arabic. When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary.
