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KTs 4 and 5 APHG
Key Terms 4 and 5 Rubenstein
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. | Popular Culture |
| A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family. | Language Branch |
| A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | Creole |
| Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans | Spanglish |
| Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups | Folk Culture |
| A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom | Taboo |
| A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who different native languages | Lingua Franca |
| The system of writing used in China and other east Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as in the case with letters in English | Ideograms |
| 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. | Pidgin Language |
| A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | Dialect |
| The contribution of a location's distinct physical features to the way food tastes. | Terrior |
| A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family | Isolated Language |
| A dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London. | British Received Pronunciation |
| A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | Language Family |
| The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | Official Language |
| A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents. | Vulgar Latin |
| A long-standing system of written communication | Literary Tradition |
| A language that was once used by people from one area or another | Extinct Language |
| A repetetive act by an individual | Habit |
| 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 | Language Group |
| A dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education and mass communication | Standard Language |
| A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language; a combination of francias and anglais, the French words for "French" and "English," respectively. | Franglais |
| A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | Isogloss |
| The repetetive act of a group | Custom |
| Dialect spoken by some African Americans | Ebonics |
| 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 |
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