AP HUMAN Flashcards

8083652821	British Received Pronunciation	the instantly recognisable accent often described as 'typically British'.	0
8083656684	Creole Language	a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages	1
8083659380	Denglish	used to refer to incorrect English that is influenced by German.	2
8083662613	Dialect	a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.	3
8083666652	Ebonics	American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English.	4
8083672351	Franglais	a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English.	5
8083672352	Ideograms	a written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters.	6
8083678561	Isogloss	a line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features.	7
8083682315	Isolated Language	a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages	8
8083684247	Language Branch	A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago	9
8083688531	Language Extinction	A language dying off	10
8083690400	Language Family	a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language	11
8083700279	Language Group	a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language	12
8083700280	Linguica Franca	a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.	13
8083703919	Literacy	the ability to read and write	14
8083707930	Pidgin	a grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language	15
8083710443	Polyglot	knowing or using several languages.	16
8083712088	Romance Languages	the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that thus form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family	17
8083712089	Spanglish	a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions.	18
8083717593	Vulgar Latin	informal Latin of classical times	19