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5389724233British Received PronunciationThe dialect of English associated with upper class britons living in London and now considered standard in the us0
5389724234Creole or creolized languageA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated1
5389724235DenglishCombination of German and english2
5389724236DialectA regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary spellings and pronunciation3
5389724237EbonicsDialect spoken by some African American4
5389724238Extinct languageA language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used5
5389724239FranglaisA term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language a combination of French and English words6
5389724240IdeogramsThe systems 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
5389724241IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different languages usages predominante8
5389724242Isolated languageA language that is unrelated to any other language and therefore not attached to any language family9
5389724243LanguageA system of communication through the use of speech a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning10
5389724244Language familyA collection of language related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history11
5389724245Language branchA collection of language related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago12
5389724246Language groupA collection of language within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary13
5389724247Lingua FrancaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages14
5389724248Literary traditionA language that is written as well as spoken15
5389724249Official languageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents16
5389724250Pidgin languageA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limpited vocabulary of a lingua Franca17
5389724251SpanglishCombination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans18
5389724252Standard languagethe form of a language used for official government business education and mass communications19
5389724253Vulgar latinA form of Latin used i daily conversation by ancient tombs as opposed to the standard dialect which was used for official documents20

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