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AP Vocab from W
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| British Recieved Pronuncation | the dialect used by the upper class in England |
| creole or creolized language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the lamguage of the people being dominated |
| Denglish | combination of German and English |
| Dialect | A regional veriety of a language distinguished by vocabularty spelling and prounciation |
| Ebonics | dialect spoken by some african americans |
| Extinct Language | A language that was once used |
| Franglais | english words that have entered the french language |
| Ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other asia countries that represent an idea with a symbol |
| isogloss | a boundry that seprates regions in which diffrent languages are used |
| Isolated Language | a language that is unrelated to any other languages |
| Language | a system of communication that through the use of speech,symols,and sounds |
| Lamguage family | a collection of languages realated to each other by comon anscestor |
| Lingua Franca | A language used in trade by people who have diffrent native languges |
| Literary tradition | a language that is written and spoken |
| Offical language | adopted by the use of goverment for a country |
| What are the Romance Languages ? | French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese |
| What are the Germanic Languages ? | English, German, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish |
| What are the Boltic-Slavic Languages ? | Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukranian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croation and Bulgarian |
| Pidgin Language | a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammer of the lingua franca |
| Spanglish | Combniation of spanish and english |
| Standard language | the langugae used for offical goverment buisness education |
| Vulguar latin | latin used in daily conversations |