Vocab 11/13/13 Flashcards
Accent
a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, esp. one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.
Dialect
a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
Esperanto
an artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages.
Extinct language
An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use
Ideogram
a written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters.
Isolated language
a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical relationship with other languages, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language
Language branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
Language
the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.
Language group
a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family.
Language family
A group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family.
Lingua franca
a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
Literary tradition
A language that is written as well as spoken
Mono/bi/multi linguality
speaking one language/2 languages /3 or more languages
Official language
a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction
Orthography
the conventional spelling system of a language.
Pidgin
a grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.
Standard language
a language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse.
Toponym
a place name, esp. one derived from a topographical feature.
Trade language
A pidgin language between different languages so that trade and communication is possible
Vernacular
the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
British Received
a standard accent of the standard English language
Pronunciation
the way in which a word is pronounced.
Creole
a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage.
Denglish
the diffusion of English words into the German language
Ebonics
an American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English.
Franglais
the diffusion of English into French, the French are very unhappy with it
Spanglish
diffusion of English into Spanish, mostly in CA and Florida
Vulgar Latin
A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect.
