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Chapter 5 vocabulary for APHG.

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Vulgar Latin   show
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Standard Language   show
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Spanglish   show
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show 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.  
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Official Language   show
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Literary Tradition   show
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British received Pronunciation   show
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show A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without the sounds used to say it.  
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show A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.  
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Language Group   show
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show A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.  
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show A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Not as old.  
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Language   show
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show A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.  
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show A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.  
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Franglais   show
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show A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.  
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Ebonics   show
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show A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.  
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show A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.  
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