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AP GEO CH 5
Adams HCHS AP Human Geo. Rubenstein Ch 5
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| African American Vernacular English (AAVE) | A dialect used by some African Americans |
| Centrifugal force | A cultural value that tends to pull people apart |
| Centripetal force | A cultural value that tends to unify people |
| Creole language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
| Denglish | A combination of Deutsch (the German word for German) and English |
| Developing language | A language in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed |
| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation |
| Dying language | A language used by older people but is not being transmitted to children |
| Endangered language | A language that children are no longer learning, and its remaining speakers use it less frequently |
| Extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used |
| Franglais | A combination of français and anglais (the French words for French and English, respectively) |
| Institutional language | A language used in education, work, mass media, and government |
| 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 language family |
| Language | A system of communication through speech or movement, a collection of sounds or symbols understood by a group of people to have the same meaning |
| Language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence |
| Language family | A collection of languages related to 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 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 |
| Logogram | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound |
| Mutual intelligibility | The ability of people communicating in two ways to readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort |
| Official language | The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents |
| Pidgin language | A form of language that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages |
| Received Pronunciation (RP) | The dialect of English commonly used by politicians, broadcasters, and actors in the United Kingdom |
| Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans |
| Standard language | The form of a language used for official government, business, education, and mass communication |
| Subdialect | A subdivision of a dialect |
| Threatened language | A language used for face-to-face communication but is losing users |
| Vigorous language | A language that is in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition |
| 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 |
| Working language | A language that is used by an international organization or corporation as its primary means of communication for daily correspondence and conversation |
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