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19 Cards in this Set
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Language
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Communication by speech
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Literary Tradition
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Written Communication
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Dialect
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A variation of a language that is recognized by different vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
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Isogloss
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An area defined by the use of a word
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Standard Language
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A widely recognized and well established dialect as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication
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British Received Pronunciation
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A dialect of associated with London Upper-Class Britons; a standard language
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Language Family
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Languages that can be related by a common ancestor spoken long before recorded history
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Language Branch
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Similar to a Language Family except slightly more recent
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Indo-European Branches
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Indo-Iranian
Romance Germanic Balto-Slavic Albanian Armenian Greek Celtic |
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Language Group
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Languages in a branch that share a similar origin in the more recent past
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Creole or Creolized Language
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A language that has been created with the indigenous language and the language of the colonists
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Ideograms
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Part of Chinese handwriting in which characters represent theories and concepts, not specific sounds
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Extinct Languages
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Languages that have died out and are not spoken any longer
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Isolated Language
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An unrelated language not attached to any language branch
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Lingua Franca
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A language used worldwide for business, government, etc.
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Pidgin Language
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A limited version of a Lingua Franca for a non-experienced speaker
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Franglais
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A combination of French and English
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Spanglish
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The combination of English and Spanish
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Denglish
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The combination of English and German
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