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AP Human Geography Chapter 5 Language Flashcards

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8490643928British Received Pronunciation (BRP)The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.0
8490643929Creole or Creolized LanguageA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.1
8490643930DenglishCombination of German and English.2
8490643931DialectA regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.3
8490643932EbonicsDialect spoken by some African Americans.4
8490643933Extinct LanguageA language that was once used by people in a daily activities but is no longer used.5
8490643934FranglaisA term used by the French for English words that have entered the French Language; a combination of français and anglais, the French words for "French" and "English," respectively.6
8490643935IdeogramsThe system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is the ease with letters in English.7
8490643936IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.8
8490643937Isolated LanguageA language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.9
8490643938LanguageA system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.10
8490643939Language BranchA collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.11
8490643940Language FamilyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.12
8490643941Language GroupA collection of languages within a branch that shares a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.13
8490643942Lingua FrancaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native language.14
8490643943Literary TraditionA language that is written as well as spoken.15
8490643944Official LanguageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct business and publication of documents.16
8490643945Pidgin LanguageA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages.17
8490643946SpanglishCombinations of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans.18
8490643947Standard LanguageThe form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.19
8490643948Vulgar LatinA form of Latin used in daily conservation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.20

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