AP HUG: Unit 5 Language Flashcards
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| 8214933884 | Accent | A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class | 0 | |
| 8214933885 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group |  | 1 |
| 8214933886 | Esperanto | An artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages |  | 2 |
| 8214933887 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use |  | 3 |
| 8214933888 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, Example: 6 (six) |  | 4 |
| 8214933889 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs |  | 5 |
| 8214933890 | Isolated Language | A natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language |  | 6 |
| 8214933891 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family |  | 7 |
| 8214933892 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way |  | 8 |
| 8214933893 | 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 |  | 9 |
| 8214933894 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |  | 10 |
| 8214933895 | Indo European language family | Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia |  | 11 |
| 8214933896 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese |  | 12 |
| 8214933897 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |  | 13 |
| 8214933898 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 14 | |
| 8214933899 | Monolingual | The condition of being able to speak only a single language |  | 15 |
| 8214933900 | Bilingual | The ability to speak two languages |  | 16 |
| 8214933901 | Multilingual | The ability to speak multiple languages |  | 17 |
| 8214933902 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents |  | 18 |
| 8214933903 | Orthography | The conventional spelling system of a language |  | 19 |
| 8214933904 | 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 |  | 20 |
| 8214933905 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications |  | 21 |
| 8214933906 | Toponym | A place name or a word derived from the name of a place |  | 22 |
| 8214933907 | Trade Language | A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade |  | 23 |
| 8214933908 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people | 24 | |
| 8214933909 | Creole Language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |  | 25 |
| 8214933910 | Denglish | The term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German |  | 26 |
| 8214933911 | Franglais | A form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English |  | 27 |
| 8214933912 | Ebonics | American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English |  | 28 |
| 8214933913 | Spanglish | A hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions |  | 29 |
| 8214936646 | Institutional Language | A language used in education, work, mass media, and government with literary tradition | 30 | |
| 8214967026 | Developing Language | A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed | 31 | |
| 8214977242 | Vigorous Language | A language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition | 32 | |
| 8214985568 | Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents | 33 | |
| 8214996397 | Logograms | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound | 34 | |
| 8215001311 | Subdialect | A subdivision of a dialect | 35 | |
| 8215004749 | Received Pronunciation (RP) | The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom | 36 | |
| 8215031756 | Acculturation | The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains distinct culture features | 37 | |
| 8215036006 | Assimilation | The process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another more dominant culture | 38 | |
| 8215044771 | Gullah | Also called Geechee is a creole language spoken on islands off South Carolina's and Georgia's coasts | 39 | |
| 8383484429 | Polyglot | A speaker of many languages | 40 | |
| 8383484430 | Centripetal Force | A language that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state | 41 | |
| 8383491145 | Centrifugal Force | A language that divides people and countries | 42 |