| 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 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. |
| Japanese | Separate language family spoken in Japan. |
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