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21 Cards in this Set
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British Received Pronunciation (BRP)
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the dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the UK
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creole, creolized language
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a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
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Denglish
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combination of German and English
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dialect
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a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
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Ebonics
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dialect spoken by some African Americans
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extinct language
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a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
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Franglaid
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a term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language; a combination of français and anglais
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ideograms
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the system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English
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isogloss
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a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
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isolated language
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a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
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language
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a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
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language branch
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a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago; differences are not as extensive or as old was with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family
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language family
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a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
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langage group
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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
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lingua franca
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a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
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literary tradition
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a language that is written as well as spoken
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official language
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the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and the publication of documents
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pidgin language
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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
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Spanglish
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combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans
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standard language
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the form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications
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Vulgar Latin
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a form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents
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