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APHG Language Ch. 5
Question | Answer |
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British Received Pronunciation | The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the UK. |
Creole or creolized language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. |
Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. |
Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African-Americans |
Extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activites but is no longer used |
Franglais | Term used by the French for English words that have entered the french language, a combo of francais and anglais |
Ideaograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asians countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as in the case with English letters |
Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate |
Isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family |
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 |
Language branch | Collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago; Differences aren't as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family |
Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |
Language group | 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 |
Lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken |
Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents |
Pidgin language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communication among speakers of two different languages |
Spanglish | Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans |
Standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications |
Vulgar language | A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was for official documents |