AP Human Geo (APHuG) LoFi Unit 3: Language Patterns

Language families spread across the land

Shared roots helping us understand

Indo-European widely known

Sino-Tibetan widely grown

Languages branch into groups and forms

Dialects shifting local norms

Communication shapes identity

Across cultural geography

Language patterns help reveal

How communication shapes what's real

Families, branches, dialect chains

Across the map the pattern remains

Lingua francas bridge the gap

English links trade across the map

Pidgin languages form through exchange

Creole languages become native tongues

Language extinction may appear

When smaller tongues disappear

Geographers trace these lines

Where communication defines