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11309526247CreoleA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.0
11309526248DenglishA combination of Deutsch (the German word for German) and English).1
11309526249Developing languageA language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.2
11309526250DialectA regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.3
11309526251EbonicsDialect spoken by some African Americans4
11309526252extinct languageA language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.5
11309526253FranglaisA combination of French and English6
11309526254Institutional languageA language used in education, work, mass media, and government.7
11309526255IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.8
11309526256languageA system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.9
11309526257Language 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
11309526258language familyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.11
11309526259Language 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.12
11309526260lingua francaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages13
11309526261Literary TraditionA language that is written as well as spoken14
11309526262LogogramA symbol that represents a word rather than a sound15
11309526263official languageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.16
11309526264pidgin 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.17
11309526265Received Pronunciation (RP)The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.18
11309526266SpanglishCombination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans.19
11309526267standard languageThe form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.20
11309526268SubdialectA subdivision of a dialect21
11309526269vigorous languagea language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition22
11309526270Vulgar LatinA form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.23

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