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Ch 5 Vocab. Ap Geo.
Vocabulary for chapter 5 of The cultural landscape an intro. to human geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Creole or Creolized Language | a language that results from the mixing of colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
| Denglish | combination of German & English |
| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling, & pronunciation |
| Ebonics | Dialect spoken by African Americans |
| Extinct language | language once used by people in daily activities but no longer |
| Franglais | Term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language |
| Isogloss | boundary that separates regions in which different languages predominate |
| Isolated Language | a language that is unrelated to any other languages & 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. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from same family |
| Language Family | a collection of languages related o each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |
| Language Group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past & display relatively few differences in grammar & vocab. |
| Lingua Franca | language usually understood & commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
| Literary Tradition | language that is written as well as spoken |
| Logogram | symbol that represents a word rather than a sound |
| Official Language | language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business & publication of documents |
| Pidgin Language | form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar & limited vocab. of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages |
| Received Pronunciation | dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London & now considered standard in the United Kingdom |
| Spanglish | combination of Spanish & English spoken by Hispanic Americans |
| Standard Language | form of a language used for official government business, education, & mass communications |
| Vulgar Latin | form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which as used of official documents |
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