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20 Cards in this Set
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BRITISH RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION [BRP]
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dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London area. Now considered standard in the UK
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CREOLE / CREOLIZED LANGUAGE
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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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regional variety of a language distinguished by vocab, 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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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 the French for English words that have entered the French language
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IDEOGRAMS
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system of writing in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound as in English
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ISOGLOSS
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boundary that separates regions in which different languages predominate
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ISOLATED LANGUAGE
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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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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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collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed severl thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, & archaeological evidence can confirm that branches derived from the same family
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LANGUAGE FAMILY
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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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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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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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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 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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