Ch 2 Cultural Landscape
Subject:
Human Geography [1]
Tags:
culture [3]
Demography [5]
population [7]
Birth rate [10]
Mortality rate [11]
English language [12]
Population growth [13]
Social Issues [14]
Words/definitions [15]
Term Definition British Received Pronunciation (BRP) The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom. Creole or creolized language A language that results from mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people documented. Dialect A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. Ebonic Dialect spoken by some African Americans. Extinct language A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. Franglais A term used by French for English words that have entered the French language Ideograms