Chapter 5 Language

Question 1

Creole

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Denglish

Answer 2

A combination of German & English

Question 3

Dialect

Answer 3

A regional variety of language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

Question 4

Ebonics

Answer 4

A dialect spoken by some African Americans

Question 5

Extinct language

Answer 5

Language that was once used by people in daily activities but no longer used

Question 6

Franglais

Answer 6

A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language

Question 7

Isogloss

Answer 7

A boundary that separates regions in which different languages usages predominate

Question 8

Isolated language

Answer 8

Language that is unrelated to any other language and not attached to a language family

Question 9

Language

Answer 9

A system of communication through the use of speech, collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning

Question 10

Language branch

Answer 10

A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed serval thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family
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Question 11

Language family

Answer 11

A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history OLDEST

Question 12

Language group

Answer 12

A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relative recent past and displays few differences NEWEST

Question 13

Lingua Franca

Answer 13

Language that mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

Question 14

Literary tradition

Answer 14

A language that is written as well as spoken

Question 15

Logograms

Answer 15

A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound

Question 16

Official language

Answer 16

The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents

Question 17

Pidgin language

Answer 17

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 (Broken English)

Question 18

Received Pronunciation (RP)

Answer 18

The dialect of English associated with the upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the UK

Question 19

Spanglish

Answer 19

A combination of Spanish and English

Question 20

Standard language

Answer 20

The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communication

Question 21

Vulgar Latin

Answer 21

A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to standard dialect, which was used for official documents