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8070119534British Received Pronunciation (BRP)The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom0
8070119535Creole or creolized languageA language that results with the indigenous language of the people being dominated1
8070119536DialectA regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation2
8070119537EbonicsDialect spoken by some African Americans3
8070119538Extinct LanguageA language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.4
8070119539FranglaisA term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language5
8070119540IdeogramsThe 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 English6
8070119541IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.7
8070119542Isolated LanguageA language that is unrelated to any other language and therefore not attached to any language family8
8070119543LanguageA system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning9
8070119544Language 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.10
8070119545Language familyCollection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history11
8070119546Language 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
8070119547Lingua francaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages13
8070119548Literary TraditionA language that is written as well as spoken.14
8070119549official languagelanguage adopted for use by the government for conduct of business and publication of documents15
8070119550pidgin languagea form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages16
8070119551SpanglishCombination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans.17
8070119552standard languageThe form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.18
8070119553Vulgar LatinA form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to standard dialect, which was used for official documents19

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