| Question |
Answer |
| British Recieved 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 donimated |
| 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 combonation of "Francais" and "Anglais", the French words for French and English |
| Ideograms |
The system of writing used in China and other East Asain 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 seperates regions in which different language useages 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 collecton of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning. |
| Language Branch |
A collecion 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 orgin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammer and vocabulary. |
| Language Family |
A collection of languages related to each other through a commen 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 grammer and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for a communications among speakers of two different languages |
| Spanglish |
Combonation of spanish and english, spoken by hispanic |
| 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. |
Weston Sandfort
on 2009-03-30
Biology Lab Midterm
