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Chapter5 Rubenstein
Language
Question | Answer |
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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 Americans. |
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 language. |
Indeograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asia countries in which easy symbol represents a idea or a concept rather than a sound, as is the case of 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 other 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 Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded in history. |
Language Group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin on the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. |
Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood 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 adoted by the government for the conduct of buisnessand publication of documents. |
Pidgin Language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for 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 buisness, education, and mass communication. |
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. |