Chapter 5 Vocab Flashcards
The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom
British Received Pronunciation
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
Creole or Creolized language
Combination of German and English
Denglish
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Dialect
Dialect spoken by some African Americans
Ebonics
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
Extinct language
A term used by the French for English words that entered the French Language
Franglais
System of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English
Ideograms
A boundary that seperates regions in which different language useages predominate
Isogloss
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
Isolated 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
Language
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family
Language branch
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
Language family
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
language group
a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
lingua franca
a language that is written as well as spoken
literary tradition
the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
official 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
pidgin language
combination of spanish and english, spoken by hispanic americans
spanglish
a form of latin used in daily conversation by ancient romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents
vulgar latin
the form of a language used for offical government business, education, and mass communications
standard language
Language family spoken by 46% of the worlds population. The branches are romance lang, Germanic lang, and Slavic Lang.
Indo European family
A geographic boundary line that defines the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs
Isogloss
the language developed for the use of international(people) to learn so they don’t have to learn all native language, but just one
esperanto
language family spoken by 46% of the world’s population
Indo European family
often shows is historical concepts long after the event has happened or person has died (naming)
Toponyms
study of speech areas and their local variations
linguistic geography
spatial interaction between speakers break down causing new words to develop (British/Americans)
linguistic diversity
with a shared, but fairly distant origin
language families
when a language is no longer used
language extinction
country that mainly speaks one language
monolingual country
country that mainly speaks more than 1 language
multilingual country
french, spanish, italian, romanian, and portuguese
romance languages
