Chapter 5 Language Flashcards
(21 cards)
Creole
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’ language with the indigenous language of people being dominated
Denglish
A combination of German & English
Dialect
A regional variety of language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Ebonics
A dialect spoken by some African Americans
Extinct language
Language that was once used by people in daily activities but no longer used
Franglais
A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language
Isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different languages usages predominate
Isolated language
Language that is unrelated to any other language and not attached to a language family
Language
A system of communication through the use of speech, collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
Language branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed serval 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 family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history OLDEST
Language group
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relative recent past and displays few differences NEWEST
Lingua Franca
Language that mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
Literary tradition
A language that is written as well as spoken
Logograms
A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound
Official language
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
Pidgin language
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua Franca- used for communications among speakers of two different languages (Broken English)
Received Pronunciation (RP)
The dialect of English associated with the upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the UK
Spanglish
A combination of Spanish and English
Standard language
The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communication
Vulgar Latin
A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to standard dialect, which was used for official documents
