Ch.5 Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 British Received Pronunciation | recognized in much of the English-speaking world as the standard form of British speech, commonly used by politicians, broadcasters, and actors. |
| Creole (or creolized) language | defined as a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. |
| Dialect | a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. |
| Ebonics | African Americans preserved this dialect. |
| Extinct language | Languages once in use that are no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world. |
| Franglais | the widespread use of English in the French language. |
| Ideograms | characters that represent ideas or concepts, not specific punctuation. |
| Isogloss | Every word that is not used nationally has geographic extent within the country and therefore has boundaries. |
| Isolated language | a language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family. |
| Language | a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning. |
| Language branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago. |
| Language family | a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history. |
| Language group | 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. |
| Lingua franca | a language of international communication, such as English. |
| Literary tradition | a system of written communication |
| Official language | the language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps. |
| Pidgin language | a group that learns English or another lingua franca may learn a simplified form called this. |
| Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English. |
| Standard language | a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication. |
| Vulgar Latin | The Latin that people in the provinces learned, Latin for "the masses" |
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