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 languages, a combination of "Francais" and "Anglais", the French words for French and English
Ideograms
The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English.
Isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
Isolated Language
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
Language
A system of communication through the use of speech, a 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 several thousand years ago.
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.
Language Family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
Lingua Franca
A language mutually undersood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
Literary Tradition
A language that is written as well as spoken
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 a 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 business, education and mass communications.
Vulgar Latin
A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.
Angles or Anglos
Word that English is derived from.
Indo-European
Language family that includes English and 7 other branches spoken by a large percentage of Europeans, North Americans and Australians.
Romance or Latin languages
Branch of Indo-European that includes French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.
Sino-Tibetan
Language family that includes Mandarin and other Chinese languages.
Afro-Asiatic
Language family that includes Arabic and Hebrew, and other languages spoken in North Africa and southwestern Asia.
Austronesian
Language family spoken in Southeast Asia.
Dravidian
Language family spoken in India.
Altaic
Language family spoken by groups between eastern Turkey and China and Mongolia.
Niger-Congo
Language family spoken by 95% of people in Sub-Sahara Africa.
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