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Chapter 5 APHumanGeo
Chapter 5 vocabulary for APHG.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents. |
| Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |
| Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans. |
| Pidgin Language | 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. |
| Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |
| Literary Tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken. |
| British received Pronunciation | A pronunciation of British English originally based on the speech of the upper class of England. |
| Ideograms | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without the sounds used to say it. |
| Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. |
| Language Group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. |
| Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. |
| Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Not as old. |
| Language | A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning. |
| Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. |
| Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. |
| Franglais | A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language. |
| Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. |
| Ebonics | A dialect spoken by some African Americans. |
| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. |
| Creole | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. |
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