Unit 5

Question 1

institutional language

Answer 1

language used in education, work, documents, etc

Question 2

official language

Answer 2

designated by government and is used by the government and on public objects (countries can have multiple)

Question 3

literary tradition

Answer 3

language is written as well as spoken, has rules of grammar and an alphabet

Question 4

developing language

Answer 4

language spoken, written, and used, but not widely distributed in literature

Question 5

vigorous language

Answer 5

language spoken and used, but lacks a literary tradition

Question 6

language family

Answer 6

collection of languages related through an ancestral language

Question 7

language branch

Answer 7

collection of languages within a family in which their common ancestral language is not as old, and the languages have less significant differences

Question 8

language group

Answer 8

collection of languages sharing a common origin in the relative past and can display similarities in grammar and vocabulary

Question 9

Vulgar Latin

Answer 9

a form of Latin used by ancient Romans, as opposed to standard dialect that was written in their official documents

Question 10

Franglais

Answer 10

mix of French and English

Question 11

Lingua franca

Answer 11

a language mutually understood and commonly used by people with different native languages (currently the worldwide lingua franca is English)

Question 12

Spanglish

Answer 12

mix of Spanish and English

Question 13

Denglish

Answer 13

mix of German and English

Question 14

pidgin language

Answer 14

groups that learn a lingua franca, but in a simplified form

Question 15

logograms

Answer 15

symbols that represent words or parts of words (Chinese)

Question 16

standard language

Answer 16

often in a language with many dialects, one dialect is recognized as this for purposes of government, education, and business

Question 17

Received Pronunciation (RP)

Answer 17

the dialect of English considered standard in the United Kingdom

Question 18

isogloss

Answer 18

a boundary separating regions in which different languages are used

Question 19

Ebonics

Answer 19

the dialect spoken by some African Americans that were preserving their native language

Question 20

creole

Answer 20

a mix of the language of colonists and the language of the indigenous people being dominated

Question 21

extinct language

Answer 21

language that was once used, but is no longer in use

Question 22

isolated language

Answer 22

language that is unrelated to any other and not associated with any language family

Question 23

subdialect

Answer 23

subdivision of a dialect

Question 24

dialect

Answer 24

a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation