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21 Cards in this Set
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The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.
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British Received Pronunciation (BRP)
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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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Creole or creolized languange
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Combination of German and English.
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Denglish
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A regional variety of language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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Dialect
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Dialect spoken by some African Americans.
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Ebonics
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A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
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Extinct Language
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A term used by French for English words that have entered the French language; a combination of francais and anglais, the French words for "French" and "English." respectively.
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Franglais
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The system of writing used in China and other East 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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Ideograms
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A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
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Isogloss
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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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Isolated 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
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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 as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.
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Language branch
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A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history.
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Language family
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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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Language group
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A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
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Lingua franca
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A language that is written as well as spoken.
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Literary tradition
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The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of document.s
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Official language
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A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
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Pidgin language
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Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans.
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Spanglish
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The form of language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
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Standard language
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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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Vulgar latin
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