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AP Human Geography Rubenstein Chapter 5 Language Flashcards

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16002683993British Received Pronunciation (BRP)The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.0
16002683994Creole or Creolized LanguageA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.1
16002683995DenglishCombination of German and English.2
16002683996DialectA regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.3
16002683997EbonicsDialect spoken by some African Americans.4
16002683998Extinct LanguageA language that was once used by people in a daily activities but is no longer used.5
16002683999FranglaisA 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
16002684000IdeogramsThe 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
16002684001IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.8
16002684002Isolated LanguageA language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.9
16002684003LanguageA system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.10
16002684004Language 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
16002684005Language FamilyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.12
16002684006Language 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
16002684007Lingua FrancaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native language.14
16002684008Literary TraditionA language that is written as well as spoken.15
16002684009Official LanguageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct business and publication of documents.16
16002684010Pidgin 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
16002684011SpanglishCombinations of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans.18
16002684012Standard LanguageThe form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.19
16002684013Vulgar 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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