AP Language Flashcards

11400821912	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
11400833235	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
11400847681	Ebonics	Distinctive dialect with a recognized vocabulary, grammar, and word meaning. Double Negatives.	2
11400907555	Extinct Language	A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.	3
11400935182	Franglais	The widespread of English in the French Language.	4
11400957310	Ideograms	A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)	5
11400979760	Isogloss	A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.	6
11401003826	Isolated Language	A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.	7
11401009366	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.	8
11401017714	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.	9
11401028559	Language Family	A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.	10
11401038482	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.	11
11401048000	Lingua Franca	A language of international communication, such as English.	12
11401078060	Literary Tradition	A system of written communication	13
11401105863	Official Language	The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.	14
11401125892	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.	15
11401135858	Spanglish	Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans.	16
11401138961	Standard Language	The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.	17
11401145710	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.	18