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
