Ap geo language vocab Flashcards

8302325523	Isolated language	A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family	0
8302325524	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	1
8302325525	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 drive from the same family	2
8302325526	Language family	A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history	3
8302325527	Language group	I collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences and grammar and vocabulary	4
8302325528	Lingua franca	I language mutually understood in commonly used in trade by people who have differently different native languages	5
8302325529	Literary tradition	I language that is written as well as spoken	6
8302325530	Official language	The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents	7
8302325531	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	8
8302325532	Spanglish	Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans	9
8302325533	Standard language	The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications	10
8302325534	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	11