Treatment Of Animals Flashcards
Migrant
A person who moves from one place to another; especially to find work
Monolingual
Someone fluent in one language
Morphology
The study of the forms of words
Linguistics
The scientific study of language ands its structure
Mother tongue
A native tongue
National language
A language that is not official but is spoken in all geographic areas if a country
Phonetics
The branch of linguistics concerned with the study and classification of speech sounds
Prescriptive grammar
A set of rules outlining how a language should be spoken or used
Second language
A language learned by a person after a native language
Semantics
The study of meaning in language
Severely endangered
A level of language endangerment in which the language is spoken by grandparents or older generations; parent generations may understand a language but do not speak it to children or amongst themselves
Sociolinguistics
The study of language in its social context including the study of dialects , the way people speak in different contexts, and attitude towards languages and dialects
Speech community
A group of people who share a set of norms and expectations regarding the use of language
Syntax
The branch of linguistics dedicated to the study of sentence structure
Translate
To change one language to another
United Nations Educational Scientific Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO)
A specialized agency that try’s to control and help disappearing languages
Vocal tract
The area stretching from the larynx through the mouth and nose that is used to filter sound
Vulnerable
A level of language endangerment in which children speak a language but it is restricted to home or school
Writing system
A set of symbols used to express a language
