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Language- Leblanc
Stack #17662
| Word | definition |
|---|---|
| language | a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning |
| dialect | a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling and puctuation |
| standard language | a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most exceptable language |
| British Recieved Pronunciation | he dialect of English associated with upper class britains living in the london and now considered standard in the UK |
| language family | collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history |
| 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 origen in the relatively recent past |
| vulgar latin | a form of latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans which was used for official documents |
| creole | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
| ideograms | ideas or concepts |
| extinct languages | a language that was once used by people in daily activities and is no longer used |
| isolated language | a language unrelated to any other and therefore not attatched to any other language |
| lingua franca | a language mutually understood and commonly used by people who have native languages |
| pidgin language | a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca |
| ebonics | a combination of ebony and phonics |
| literary tradition | (blank) |
| isogloss | a boundary that seperates regions in which different language used predominant |
| franglais | a term used by the french for english words that have entered the french language |
| spanglish | mixture of spanish and english |
| official language | the language adopted for use by the governement for the conduct of buisness and publication of documents |
| literary tradition | language spoken and written |
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