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22 Cards in this Set
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language
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system of communicaion through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same tradition
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literary tradition
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system of written communicaion
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language family
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collection of languages related through a common ancestor way back in history (probably almost before time)
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language branch
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collection of languages related through a common ancestor only thousands of years ago
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language group
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collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in language
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dialect
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regional variety of a language, distringuished by vocab, spelling, and pronunciation
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official language
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language used by the government for laws, reports, and piblic objects juch as road signs, money, and stamps.
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hankul
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the korean style of writing
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ideograms (164)
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characters that represent concepts or ideas (such as in Mandarin Chinese)
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Vulgar Latin (171)
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a form of Latin that was used by ancient Romans who concerved the dialect for official documents
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Two theories of Origin and Diffusion of Indo-European speakers
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1) Kurgan Origin
-expansion from the steppes of Russia and Kazakhstan aroung 4300 BC 2) Origin in Anatolia -around 6300 BC, people expanded from Anatolia (modern day Turkey) outwards, which created the other languages |
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isolated language
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language unrelated to any other language and therefore not attached to any language family
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standard language (174)
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a dialect that is well-established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication
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British Received Pronunciation (BRP)
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the accent associated with upper class Britons living in London, often known because it's commonly used by politicians, broadcasters, and actors
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3 differences between American and British English
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-vocabulary
-spelling -pronunciation |
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isogloss (177)
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a boundary that seperates the regions where different language usages predominate
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creole/creolized language
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a language that results from the mizing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
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extinct language
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languages that were once used in the past but no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world
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lingua franca
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a language of international communication, originated during the Middle Ages to refer to the language of the Franks, who traded with the Arabs
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pidgin language (184)
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a group that learns a simplified form of English or another lingua franca
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Ebonics
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the African-American conservation of their respective dialects, a combination of ebony and phonics
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spanglish
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diffusion of Spanish into the USA, which combines Spanish and English
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