APHG Ch. 5 Language
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KendallThompson14 on February 8, 2012
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Ch. 5 Language key words
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | A particular dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons. |
| Creole or Creolized Language | 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 pronunciations |
| Ebonics | The distinctive dialect African-Americans preserved from living in segregated neighborhoods and going to segregated schools |
| Extinct Language | Languages that were once in use-even in the recent past-but are no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world |
| Franglais | A combination of the French and English languages |
| Ideograms | Depictions representing ideas or concepts but not specific pronunciations |
| Isogloss | A word-usage boundary |
| 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 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 |
| Literary Tradition | A system of written communication |
| Official Language | The language used by government for laws, reports, public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps |
| Pidgin Language | The simplified form of any lingua franca |
| Spanglish | The combination of the Spanish and English languages |
| Standard Language | A dialect that is well established and widely recognized as most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication |
| Vulgar Latin | The most common language spoken by people that was not standard, but derived from the word meaning "For the masses" |
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