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20 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 the London area and new considered standard in the United Kingdom.
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Creole or Crealized 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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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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Franglais
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Term used by French for English words that have entered the French language.
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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 communications 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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Collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
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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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Language Group
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A collection of languages with in 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 publication of documents.
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Pidgin Language
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A form of speech that adopts 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 conversations by ancient Romans as opposed to the standard dialect which was used for official documents.
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