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5634306702British Received Pronunciation (BRP)The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.0
5634313909Creole or creolized languageA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated1
5634321928DenglishCombination of German and English2
5634323938DialectA regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary spelling and pronounciation3
5634332271EbonicsDialect spoken by some African Americans4
5634334722Extinct languageA language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used5
5634339166FranglaisA term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language a combo of frrancias and anglais, the french words for french and english, respectively6
5634352057IdeogramsThe 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 case with letters in English7
5634360446IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate8
5634367112Isolated languageA language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family9
5634371731Language BranchA collection of languages relater through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old with language families and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family10
5634387106Language FamilyA collections of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.11
5634394056Language groupA collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary12
5634401998Lingua francaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages13
5634405871Literary traditionA language that is written as well as spoken14
5634409321Official languageThe language adopted for use by the gov. for the conduct of business and publication of documents15
5634414804Pidgin languageA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocab of a lingua franca; used for communication16
5634479432SpanglishCombo of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans17
5634481982Vulgar LatinA form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.18

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