Rubenstein-Chapter 5: Language Flashcards
British Received Pronunciation (BRP)
The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.
Creole or Creolized Language
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Denglish
Combination of German and English.
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling, and pronunciation.
Ebonics
Dialect spoken by some African Americans.
Extinct Language
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
Franglais
A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language; a combination of francais and anglais, the French words for “French” and “English”, respectively.
Ideograms
The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents and idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English.
Isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different language uses predominate.
Isolated Language
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
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 Branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
Language Family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
Language Group
A collection of languages with a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
Lingua Franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
