Chapter 5 - APHG

Question 1

Language

Answer 1

a system of communication through speech, movement, sounds, or symbols that a group of people understands to have the same meaning

Question 2

institutional language

Answer 2

used in work, education, mass media, and government

Question 3

developing language

Answer 3

in daily use by people of all ages

Question 4

vigorous language

Answer 4

in daily use by people of all ages, but it lacks a literary tradition

Question 5

threatened language

Answer 5

used for face-to-face communication but is losing users

Question 6

dying language

Answer 6

used by older people but is not being transmitted to children

Question 7

language family

Answer 7

a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history

Question 8

language branch

Answer 8

is a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language

Question 9

language group

Answer 9

collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past

Question 10

lingua franca

Answer 10

a language of international communication.

Question 11

official language

Answer 11

used by the government to enact legislation, publish documents, and conduct other public business

Question 12

working language

Answer 12

designated by an international organization or corporation as its
primary means of communication for daily correspondence and conversation

Question 13

UN has how many official and working languages

Answer 13

6 (English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Chinese)

Question 14

dialect

Answer 14

a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

Question 15

standard language

Answer 15

the dialect considered the most acceptable

Question 16

isogloss

Answer 16

a word-use boundary with a degree of geographic extent

Question 17

creole

Answer 17

a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

Question 18

endangered language

Answer 18

one that children are no longer
learning, and its remaining speakers use it less frequently.

Question 19

isolated language

Answer 19

a language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.

Question 20

extinct language

Answer 20

a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer in use.

Question 21

English is the Most Used Lingua Franca