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Unit 3 Chapter 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Creole Language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the native language of the people being dominated |
| Denglish | A combination of Deutsch (German) & English |
| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation |
| Extinct languages | A language that was once used by people n daily activities but is no longer used |
| Franglais | A combination of French and English |
| Indo-European Family | a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian |
| 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 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 related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence |
| Language Convergence | Languages become one because of close spatial interaction |
| Language Divergence | Languages separate and break down into dialects |
| 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 that is written as well as spoken |
| Literary Tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken |
| Logograms | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound |
| Multilingual Country | |
| Nomadic Warrior Theory | |
| 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 2 different languages |
| Romance languages | French,Spanish,Romanian,Italian, Portuguese |
| Sedentary Farmer Theory | Language diffused peacefully and slowly by agricultural trade |
| 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 |
| Vulgar Language |
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