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Grade Savers Ch. 6
Question | Answer |
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Language | System of communications |
Dialect | Regional variety of a language |
Isogloss | Boundary that separates regions |
Toponym | Place names |
Language Tree | 19 Language families |
Language Family | Collection of languages (long before recorded history) |
Language Branch | Collection of languages (several thousand years ago) |
Language Group | Collection of languages (within a branch) |
Indo-European family | Most widely spread language family |
Sino-Tibetan family | Language area spreads Southeast Asia |
Ideograms | System of writing used in China |
Germanic Language | Language spoken in Western Europe |
Romance Language | Any of the languages derived from Latin |
Vulgar Latin | Form of Latin used in daily conversation |
Language Diversion | Occurs when new languages or dialects grow from one original source |
Creole or creolized language | A language that results from mixing of a colonizers language |
Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood |
Pidgin Language | Form of speech that adopts simplified grammar |
Franglais | A term used by French |
Denglish | German and English |
Spanglish | Spanish and English |
Ebonics | spoken by African Americans |
Isolated Language | Language unrelated to any other languages |
Extinct Language | Language once used |
Monolingual State | Country in which one language is spoken |
Multilingual State | Country where more than one language is spoken |
Polyglot | Person that speaks many languages |
Official Language | Language adopted for Government use |
Standard Language | Form of language used not adopted |