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14 Cards in this Set
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Creole |
A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
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Dialect |
Regional variation of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling and pronunciation.
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Ebonics |
Dialect spoken by some African -Americans. |
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extinct language |
Language once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. |
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franglais |
A mix between french and English. |
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isogloss |
boundary that separates regions in which different language uses predominate. |
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isolated language |
language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any family. |
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language |
system of communication through the use of speech, collection of sounds and understood by a group of people to have the same meaning. |
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language branch |
collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. |
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language group |
collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocab. |
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lingua franca |
language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. |
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literary tradition |
language that is written as well as spoken. |
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official language |
language adopted for use by the government for conduct of business and publication of documents. |
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pidgin language |
form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocab of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of different languages. |
