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| British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | The dialect of English associated with upper class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.
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| Creole or Creolized Language | 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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| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.
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| Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African Americans.
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| Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities, but is no longer used.
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| Franglais | A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language.
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| Indeograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asia countries in which easy symbol represents a idea or a concept rather than a sound, as is the case of letters in English.
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| Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
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| Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and, therefore, not attached to any other language family.
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| 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.
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| Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded in history.
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| Language Group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin on the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
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| Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
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| Literary Tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken.
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| Official Language | The language adoted by the government for the conduct of buisnessand publication of documents.
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| 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.
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| Spanglish | Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans.
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| Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government buisness, education, and mass communication.
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| 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.
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