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20 Cards in this Set
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British Received Pronounciation
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The dialect of English associated with upper-class British living in London areas and now considered standard in the UK
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BRP
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Creole or Creolized Language
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A language that results from the mixing of the colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
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Think Haitian languages
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Dialect
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Regional variations of a language distinguished by distinctive vocab spelling, and pronunciation
- reflects distinctive features of the environment that groups live in |
Southern vs. Northern
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Ebonics
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Dialect spoken by African-americans
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ebony and phonics
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Extinct Language
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Once in use but no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world
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Mayan
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Franglais
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The term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language
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A combination of français and anglais
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Ideograms
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The system of writing used in China and other Eastern Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English.
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Isogloss
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The boundary that separates regions in which different language uses predominate
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skillet vs. pan
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Isolated Language
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Language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family
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Basque
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Language
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A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning
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English is a _________
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Language Branch
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A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago; within the language family
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Ball
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Language Family
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A collection of languages related through common ancestral languages that existed long before recorded history
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Foot
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Language 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 vocab
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Game
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Lingua Franca
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The language of international communication
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English, Swahili
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Literary Tradition
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A system of written communication
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Official Language
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The language used by the government for laws reports in public objects
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The US has none
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Pidgin Language
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A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocab of a lingua franca used for communication among speakers of two different languages
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Spanglish
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A combination of Spanish and English that has resulted from English diffusing into the Spanish language
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Standard Language
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Dialect that is well established and widely recognized as acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication
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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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common folk latin
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