AP human language vocab Flashcards
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| 3496639884 | creole language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 0 | |
| 3496639885 | denglish | A combination of German and English | 1 | |
| 3496639886 | dialect | A regional variety of language distinguished by vocabulary spelling and pronunciation | 2 | |
| 3496639887 | Ebonics | a dialect spoken by some African-Americans | 3 | |
| 3496639888 | extinct language | A language that was once used by people and daily activities but is no longer used | 4 | |
| 3496639889 | franglais | used by the French for English words that have entered the French language | 5 | |
| 3496639890 | isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usage predominate | 6 | |
| 3496639891 | isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family | 7 | |
| 3496639892 | language | A system of communication through the use of speech at a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning | 8 | |
| 3496639893 | language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | 9 | |
| 3496639894 | language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 10 | |
| 3496639895 | language group | A 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 | 11 | |
| 3496639896 | lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade with people who have different native languages | 12 | |
| 3496639897 | literary tradition | hey language that is written well as spoken | 13 | |
| 3496639898 | logogram | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound | 14 | |
| 3496639899 | official language | The language adopted for used by the government for the conduct of businesses and publication of documents | 15 | |
| 3496639900 | pidgin language | hey form of speech that adopt a simplified grammar a limited vocabulary of a lingua franca use for communications among speakers of two different languages | 16 | |
| 3496639901 | received pronunciation | The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom | 17 | |
| 3496639902 | spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans | 18 | |
| 3496639903 | Standard language | The form of a language is for official government business education in mass communications | 19 | |
| 3496639904 | Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used to do the conversation by ancient Romans as opposed to the standard dialect which was used for official documents | 20 |