Lesson 9: Language Varieties

Question 1

What are spoken mainly as second languages in ex-colonies with multi-lingual populations?

Answer 1

Indigenized Varieties

Question 2

What is a distinct language which has taken most of its vocabulary from another language but has its own unique grammatical rules?

Answer 2

Creole

Question 3

What is that one particular language called in which the vocabulary of a pidgin comes mainly from?

Answer 3

Lexifier

Question 4

What is the sole criterion to be fulfilled by a particular variety?

Answer 4

Delimitation with other varieties

Question 5

What term is used to refer to any variant of a language which can be sufficiently delimited from another one?

Answer 5

Variety

Question 6

What language variety spoken in Singapore is very different from standard English?

Answer 6

Singlish

Question 7

What do the speakers of Jamaican Creole call their language?

Answer 7

Patwa

Question 8

What develops its own grammatical rules which are quite different from those of the lexifier?

Answer 8

Stable pidgin

Question 9

What is a new language which develops in situations where speakers of different languages need to communicate but do not share a common language?

Answer 9

Pidgin

Question 10

What does language variety simply refer to?

Answer 10

A distinguishable variant of a language