Chapter 5 Vocab

Question 1

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

Answer 1

British Received Pronunciation

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Creole or Creolized language

Question 3

Combination of German and English

Answer 3

Denglish

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Dialect

Question 5

Dialect spoken by some African Americans

Answer 5

Ebonics

Question 6

A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used

Answer 6

Extinct language

Question 7

A term used by the French for English words that entered the French Language

Answer 7

Franglais

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Ideograms

Question 9

A boundary that seperates regions in which different language useages predominate

Answer 9

Isogloss

Question 10

A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family

Answer 10

Isolated language

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Language

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Language branch

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Language family

Question 14

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

Answer 14

language group

Question 15

a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

Answer 15

lingua franca

Question 16

a language that is written as well as spoken

Answer 16

literary tradition

Question 17

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

Answer 17

official language

Question 18

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

Answer 18

pidgin language

Question 19

combination of spanish and english, spoken by hispanic americans

Answer 19

spanglish

Question 20

a form of latin used in daily conversation by ancient romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents

Answer 20

vulgar latin

Question 21

the form of a language used for offical government business, education, and mass communications

Answer 21

standard language

Question 22

Language family spoken by 46% of the worlds population. The branches are romance lang, Germanic lang, and Slavic Lang.

Answer 22

Indo European family

Question 23

A geographic boundary line that defines the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs

Answer 23

Isogloss

Question 24

the language developed for the use of international(people) to learn so they don’t have to learn all native language, but just one

Answer 24

esperanto

Question 25

language family spoken by 46% of the world’s population

Answer 25

Indo European family

Question 26

often shows is historical concepts long after the event has happened or person has died (naming)

Answer 26

Toponyms

Question 27

study of speech areas and their local variations

Answer 27

linguistic geography

Question 28

spatial interaction between speakers break down causing new words to develop (British/Americans)

Answer 28

linguistic diversity

Question 29

with a shared, but fairly distant origin

Answer 29

language families

Question 30

when a language is no longer used

Answer 30

language extinction

Question 31

country that mainly speaks one language

Answer 31

monolingual country

Question 32

country that mainly speaks more than 1 language

Answer 32

multilingual country

Question 33

french, spanish, italian, romanian, and portuguese

Answer 33

romance languages