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Chapter5 Rubenstein
Language
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | The dialect of English associated with upper class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom |
| Creole or Creolized Language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation |
| Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African |
| Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used |
| Franglais | A term used by the french for english words that have entered the french language. |
| Indeograms | The system of writing used in china and other east asia countries in which easy symbol represents a idea or a concept rather than a sound, as is the case of letters in english. |
| Isogloss | A boundary tyhat separates reigons in which different language usages predominate. |
| Isolated Language | A language that is inrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any other language family |
| language | A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by agroup of people to have the same meaning. |
| Language Family | A collection of languages realted to eachother through a common ancestor long before recordedd in history. |
| Language Group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin on the relatively recept past and display relatively few diffrences in grammar and vocabulary.. |
| Lingua Franca | A language muttually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have diffrent native languages. |
| Literary Tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken. |
| Official Language | The language adoted by the government for the conduct of buisnessand 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. |
| Spanglish | Combination of spanish and english, spoken by hispanic americans. |
| Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government buisness, education, and mass communication. |
| Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversation by aincent Romans as opposed to the standard dialect, which waas used for official documents. |
Created by:
Weston Sandfort
on 2009-03-30