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| 8799436777 | British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | The dialect recognized as the standard form of British speech, came from London, Cambridge, and Oxford diffused by printing press: dictionaries and grammar books | 0 | |
| 8799621429 | Bilingual Countries | 2 official languages Canada: French and English Belgium: Dutch in north and Flemish in south | 1 | |
| 8799432388 | Creole (or creolized) language | a pidgin language that has developed to be more complex in structure and vocabulary, has become a true language ex: Swahili, Afrikans a language that results from colonizers language mixing with the native language |  | 2 |
| 8799432389 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 3 | |
| 8799466968 | endangered language | language in danger of becoming extinct because it has very few remaining speakers Celtic- Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Bretan, Cornish | 4 | |
| 8799432390 | Extinct language | A language that was once use by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 5 | |
| 8799470468 | ideograms | Chinese is written in this form pictures or symbols that stand for ideas |  | 6 |
| 8799432391 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. |  | 7 |
| 8799432392 | Isolated language (Isolate) | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. Basque |  | 8 |
| 8799432393 | 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. | 9 | |
| 8799432395 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 10 | |
| 8799432394 | Language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family |  | 11 |
| 8799521431 | Big Language Families to Know | 1) Indo European: Germanics, Romances, Slavic, Indo-Iranian 2) Afro-Asiatic (North Africa): Arabic 3) Sino-Tibetan (China): Mandarin, ideograms 4) Niger-Congo (SubSaharan Africa): LOTS of languages via Bantu Migrations, Swahili | 12 | |
| 8799432397 | Lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. English, French, Swahili, Spanish | 13 | |
| 8799432396 | 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. |  | 14 |
| 8799657610 | Romance Languages | those Indo European languages descended from Latin French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish | 15 | |
| 8799432398 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken. | 16 | |
| 8799432399 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |  | 17 |
| 8799432400 | Pidgin language | When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary | | 18 |
| 8799432401 | Standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 19 | |
| 8799432404 | Ebonics | A dialect spoken by some African Americans. | 20 | |
| 8799432405 | Franglais | A combination of French and English | 21 | |
| 8799432409 | Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans. | 22 | |
| 8799432412 | 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 -The Latin that people in the provinces learned was not the standard literary form but a spoken form | 23 | |
| 8799605864 | How did it get there? | Hearth Theory vs. Agriculture Theory, old military invasions | 24 |
