AP VOCAB for Language Flashcards
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| 7778361824 | Creole Language | A language that results from the mixing of colonizer's language with the inndegenous language of the people being dominated | 0 | |
| 7778428188 | Denglish | A combination of Deutsch (The German word for German) and English | 1 | |
| 7778442360 | Developing Language | A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed | 2 | |
| 7778450160 | Dialect | A regional Variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronounciation. | 3 | |
| 7778473973 | Ebonics | A dialect spoken by some African Americans | 4 | |
| 7778509338 | Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activitiesbut is no longer used | 5 | |
| 7778520509 | Franglais | A combination of francais and anglais. ( French and English) | 6 | |
| 7778542942 | Institutionalized Language | A language used in education, work, mass media, and government. | 7 | |
| 7778569877 | Isogloss | A boundary that seperates regions in which different language usages predominate | 8 | |
| 7778662473 | Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefor not attached to any language family | 9 | |
| 7778684254 | 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 | |
| 7778708418 | Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be be confirmed through archaeological evidence. | 11 | |
| 7778743539 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 12 | |
| 7778762177 | 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. | 13 | |
| 7778781222 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. | 14 | |
| 7778793931 | Litereary Tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken. | 15 | |
| 7778796930 | Logogram | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound. | 16 | |
| 7778804730 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 17 | |
| 7778816594 | 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. | 18 | |
| 7778838070 | Received Pronunciation | The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britions living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom. | 19 | |
| 7778848842 | Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English. (Spoken by Hispanic Americans) | 20 | |
| 7778867767 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communication. | 21 | |
| 7778879973 | Subdialect | A subdivision of a dialect. | 22 | |
| 7778886649 | Vigorous Language | A language that is spoken in daily use but lacks literary tradition. | 23 | |
| 7778894183 | Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversations by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, ehich was used for official documents. | 24 |