AP Human Geography Rubenstein Chapter 5 Language Flashcards

5316205280	British Received Pronunciation (BRP)	The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.	0
5316205281	Creole or Creolized Language	A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.	1
5316205282	Denglish	Combination of German and English.	2
5316205283	Dialect	A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.	3
5316205284	Ebonics	Dialect spoken by some African Americans.	4
5316205285	Extinct Language	A language that was once used by people in a daily activities but is no longer used.	5
5316205286	Franglais	A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French Language; a combination of français and anglais, the French words for "French" and "English," respectively.	6
5316205287	Ideograms	The system 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 ease with letters in English.	7
5316205288	Isogloss	A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.	8
5316205289	Isolated Language	A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.	9
5316205290	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
5316205291	Language Branch	A 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.	11
5316205292	Language Family	A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.	12
5316205293	Language Group	A collection of languages within a branch that shares a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.	13
5316205294	Lingua Franca	A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native language.	14
5316205295	Literary Tradition	A language that is written as well as spoken.	15
5316205296	Official Language	The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct business and publication of documents.	16
5316205297	Pidgin Language	A 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
5316205298	Spanglish	Combinations of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans.	18
5316205299	Standard Language	The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.	19
5316205300	Vulgar Latin	A form of Latin used in daily conservation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.	20