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Chapter 5
Term | Definition |
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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 spoken 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 |
Ebonics | A dialect spoken by some African Americans |
Extinct language | A language that was once used by people on daily activities but is no longer used |
Franglais | A combination of Français and Anglais |
Institutional language | A language used in education, work, mad media, and government |
Isogloss | A boundary that seperates regions in which different language usages predominate |
Isolated languages | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and 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 relayed 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 |
Official language | The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and 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 |
Received Pronunciation(RP) | The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard 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 communications |
Subdialect | A sub division of a dialect |
Vigorous language | A language that is spoken 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 |