AP Human Ch. 5 Vocab Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Ebonics | A dialect spoken by some African Americans |
| Creole | A language that results from mixing a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
| Language branch | A collection of languages related by a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago, derived from the same family |
| Standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications |
| Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents |
| Isogloss | A boundary between regions where different dialects predominate |
| Lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people with different native languages |
| Pidgin language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communication between speakers of two different languages |
| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronounciation |
| Logogram | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound |
| Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken |
| Received Pronunciation (RP) | The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered the standard of the UK |
| Language group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display few differences in grammar and vocabulary |
| Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect used in official documents |
| Extinct language | A language that was once used in daily activities but is no longer used |
| Language family | A collection of languages related by a common ancestor long before recorded history |
| Isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other language and therefore not attached to any language family |
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