5389724233 | British Received Pronunciation | The dialect of English associated with upper class britons living in London and now considered standard in the us | 0 | |
5389724234 | Creole or creolized language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 1 | |
5389724235 | Denglish | Combination of German and english | 2 | |
5389724236 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary spellings and pronunciation | 3 | |
5389724237 | Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African American | 4 | |
5389724238 | Extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used | 5 | |
5389724239 | Franglais | A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language a combination of French and English words | 6 | |
5389724240 | Ideograms | The 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 English | 7 | |
5389724241 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different languages usages predominante | 8 | |
5389724242 | Isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other language and therefore not attached to any language family | 9 | |
5389724243 | Language | A system of communication through the use of speech a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning | 10 | |
5389724244 | Language family | A collection of language related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 11 | |
5389724245 | Language branch | A collection of language related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | 12 | |
5389724246 | Language group | A collection of language within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary | 13 | |
5389724247 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 14 | |
5389724248 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken | 15 | |
5389724249 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 16 | |
5389724250 | Pidgin language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limpited vocabulary of a lingua Franca | 17 | |
5389724251 | Spanglish | Combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans | 18 | |
5389724252 | Standard language | the form of a language used for official government business education and mass communications | 19 | |
5389724253 | Vulgar latin | A form of Latin used i daily conversation by ancient tombs as opposed to the standard dialect which was used for official documents | 20 |
Chapter 5 ap language Flashcards
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