Chapter 5

Question 1

Creole or creolized language

Answer 1

A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

Question 2

Dialect

Answer 2

A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

Question 3

Ebonics

Answer 3

Blacks living in racially segregated neighborhoods with Northern cities, and attending segregated schools created their own distinct dialect called Ebonics.

Question 4

Franglais

Answer 4

The widespread use of English in the French Language.

Question 5

Ideograms

Answer 5

A written character that represents ideas or concepts, nor specific pronunciations.

Question 6

Isogloss

Answer 6

A line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features.

Question 7

Isolated language

Answer 7

A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.

Question 8

Language

Answer 8

A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have to same meaning.

Question 9

Language branch

Answer 9

A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago.

Question 10

Language family

Answer 10

A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.

Question 11

Language group

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Lingua franca

Answer 12

A language of international communication.

Question 13

Official language

Answer 13

The language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps.

Question 14

Pidgin language

Answer 14

A group that learns English or another lingua Franca may learned a simplified form.

Question 15

Spanglish

Answer 15

The process of English diffusing into the Spanish language spoken by 28 million Hispanics in the U.S.

Question 16

Standard language

Answer 16

A dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication.

Question 17

Vulgar Latin

Answer 17

The Latin that people in the provinces learned was not the standard literacy form but a spoken form.

Question 18

British received pronunciation

Answer 18

A dialect of English associated with upper class Britains living in the London area and is the standard form of British speech. It’s commonly used by politicians, broadcasters, and actors.