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5847947085British Recieved Pronnunciationthe dialect of english associated with upper class Britons living in London and now comsidered standard in the united kigdom0
5847947086Creole or creolized languageA language that results from the mixing of a colonizers languahe with the indigenous language of the people being dominated1
5847947087DenglishCombination pf German and English2
5847947088DialectA regional variety of language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation3
5847947089EbonicsDialect spoken by some African Americans4
5847947090Extinct LanguageA languahe that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used5
5847947091FranglaisCombination between French and English6
5847947092Ideogramsthe system of writing used in china and other east asian countries in which each symbol represent an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound as is the case with letters in english7
5847947093IsoglossA boundary that seperates regions im which different language usages predominate8
5847947094Isolated Languagea language that is un related to any other languages and therefore not attached to any languahe family9
5847947095Languagea system of communication through the use of speech a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same feeling10
5847947096Language branchA collection of languages related through a common ancestor that exsisted several thousand years ago.11
5847947097Language Familya collection of languahes related to each other through a commom amcestor ling before recorded history12
5847947098language groupa collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively few differences in frammar and vocab13
5847947099Lingua FrancaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages14
5847947100Literary TraditionA language that is written as well as spoken15
5847947101Official LanguageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication documents16
5847947102Pidgin LanguageA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocab of a lingua franca; used for communocations among speakers for two different languages17
5847947103Spanglishcombination of spanish and english; spoken by hispanic americans18
5847947104Standard Languagethe form of language used for official government business education and mass communications19
5847947105Vulgar LatinA form of latin used in daily comverstaion by ancient romans as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents20

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