AMSCO Vocab Chapter 7 Flashcards
linguists
people who study language
language tree
shows how languages are related to each other
Indo-European language family
a group of languages that descended from a language spoken 6,000 years ago
Romance languages
languages of Latin diverged into distinct languages
isoglosses
the variations in pronunciations or word usage
dialects
how people speak in a certain region
adages
sayings that attempt to express a truth about life
lingua franca
a common language used by people of different languages
pidgin language
a simplified mixture of two languages
creole language
a new combined language
Swahili
a language created in Africa
official language
one designated by law to be the language of government
homogeneous
ethnically similar people
slang
informal usage by a segment of the population
