AP Human Chpt 4 & 5
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| British Received Pronunciation | (BRP) The dialect of English now considered standard in the UK.
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| 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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| Custom | The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.
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| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.
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| Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African Americans.
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| Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
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| Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
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| Franglais | A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language.
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| Habit | A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.
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| Ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound.
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| Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
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| Isolated Language | A language that's unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
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| 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.
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| Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
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| Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor LONG before recorded history.
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| Language Group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past.
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| Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
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| Literary Tradition | A language that's written as well as spoken.
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| Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
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| 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.
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| Popular Culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
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| Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans.
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| Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
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| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
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| Terroir | The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.
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| Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans.
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