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Vocab 3.1 Words *
Word and defintion *
Term | Definition |
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Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation |
Official Language | the language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents |
Custom | the frequency repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act |
Creole Language | language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
Lingua Franca | Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
Standard language | form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications |
Pidgin Language | form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used to communications among speakers of 2 different languages |