chapter five - language Flashcards
Sino-Tibetan
mandarin
afro-asiatic
arabic
austro-asiatic
vietnamese
altaic
turkish
romance
spanish
balto-slavic
russian
indo-iranian
hindi
korean
korean
niger-congo
zulu
5 Indo European Languages
English German Spanish French Portuguese
Creole or creolized languages
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with indigenous language of the people being dominated.
ebonics
dialect spoken by some African americans
ideaograms
system of writing used in china and other east Asian countries.
isogloss
a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
lingua franca
a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
language family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
language group
a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin but display a few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
language branch
a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
