DED Words #5 Flashcards
Literary Tradition
A language that is written as well as spoken.
Official Language
A language adopted by the government for use.
Language Family
A group of languages connected long before history.
Language Branch
A collection of languages derived from a language family.
Lopogram
A symbol that represents a word not a sound.
Vulgar Latin
an everyday, casual form of Latin spoken in the Roman Empire.
Dialect
A regional variety of languages.
Isogloss
A language boundary between places.
(British) Received Pronunciation
The dialect of English associated with upper class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the UK.
Creolized Language
A mix of an indigenous people’s language and its colonizer’s language.
Multilingual States
A country with multiple official languages.
Isolated Language
A language that is not related to any other language.
Extinct Language
A language that has become unused.
Endangered Language
A language that is dying in use.
Lingua Franca
A language understandable to people who have different native languages in trade.
Pidgin Language
Speech that adopts a simplified form of lingua franca; used to communicate to two different language speakers.
Ebonics
A dialect spoken by some African Americans.
Franglais
A french term for words that are English that have entered their language.
Spanglish
A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans.
Denglish
A combination of German and English.
Language Divergence
Distinguishing languages by creating differences.
Language Convergence
Combining characteristics of languages.
Monolingual
Only speaking one language.
Multilingual
Speaking more than one language.
Polygot
Knowing or using several languages.
Ideograms
Symbols that represent words.
