Chapter 5: Language Flashcards
Linguistic geography
Study of speech areas and local variations
Language
System of communication uses signs gestures, marks, or vocal sounds to communicate thoughts, feelings, and ideas
Language family
With a shared, but fairly distant origin
Dialect
Regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Indo- European
Language family spoken by 46% if the world’s population
Official language
Language used by the government when making laws, reports, public objects, money, and stamps
Isolated language
Language that is not related to any other language around it
Isogloss
Geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs
Lingua Franca
Language systematically used to make communication possible between not sharing an original language
Pidgin language
Simplified version of a language
Creole language
Major language of a people
Toponym
Study of place names: show historical concepts long after the event has happened or person has died
Literary tradition
System of written communication
Standard language
A dialect that is well established an widely recognized as the most acceptable for government
British Received Pronunciation (BRP)
Dialect of English associated with upper class Britons living in London and now considered standard living in the UK
Language branch
Collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago
Language group
Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past
Vulgar language
Form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans a oppose to standard dialect
Ideograms
Represent ideas of concepts not specific pronunciations
Sino- Tibetan language family
Encompasses languages spoken in the people’s republic of china
Ebonics
Distinct dialect spoken by some African Americans
Franglais
Combination of French and English
Spanglish
Combination of Spanish and English
Denglish
Diffusion of English words into German
Extinct language
Language that was once used b people in daily activities but is no longer used
Romance languages
French, Spanish, Italian
