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11400821912British Received Pronunciation (BRP)The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.0
11400833235Creole or creolized languageA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.1
11400847681EbonicsDistinctive dialect with a recognized vocabulary, grammar, and word meaning. Double Negatives.2
11400907555Extinct LanguageA language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.3
11400935182FranglaisThe widespread of English in the French Language.4
11400957310IdeogramsA character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)5
11400979760IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.6
11401003826Isolated LanguageA language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.7
11401009366LanguageA system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.8
11401017714Language 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.9
11401028559Language FamilyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.10
11401038482Language 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 vocabulary.11
11401048000Lingua FrancaA language of international communication, such as English.12
11401078060Literary TraditionA system of written communication13
11401105863Official LanguageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.14
11401125892Pidgin 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.15
11401135858SpanglishCombination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans.16
11401138961Standard LanguageThe form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.17
11401145710Vulgar 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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