Vocab 11/13/13

Question 1

Accent

Answer 1

a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, esp. one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.

Question 2

Dialect

Answer 2

a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.

Question 3

Esperanto

Answer 3

an artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages.

Question 4

Extinct language

Answer 4

An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use

Question 5

Ideogram

Answer 5

a written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters.

Question 6

Isolated language

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Language branch

Answer 7

A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.

Question 8

Language

Answer 8

the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.

Question 9

Language group

Answer 9

a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family.

Question 10

Language family

Answer 10

A group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family.

Question 11

Lingua franca

Answer 11

a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.

Question 12

Literary tradition

Answer 12

A language that is written as well as spoken

Question 13

Mono/bi/multi linguality

Answer 13

speaking one language/2 languages /3 or more languages

Question 14

Official language

Answer 14

a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction

Question 15

Orthography

Answer 15

the conventional spelling system of a language.

Question 16

Pidgin

Answer 16

a grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.

Question 17

Standard language

Answer 17

a language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse.

Question 18

Toponym

Answer 18

a place name, esp. one derived from a topographical feature.

Question 19

Trade language

Answer 19

A pidgin language between different languages so that trade and communication is possible

Question 20

Vernacular

Answer 20

the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

Question 21

British Received

Answer 21

a standard accent of the standard English language

Question 22

Pronunciation

Answer 22

the way in which a word is pronounced.

Question 23

Creole

Answer 23

a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage.

Question 24

Denglish

Answer 24

the diffusion of English words into the German language

Question 25

Ebonics

Answer 25

an American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English.

Question 26

Franglais

Answer 26

the diffusion of English into French, the French are very unhappy with it

Question 27

Spanglish

Answer 27

diffusion of English into Spanish, mostly in CA and Florida

Question 28

Vulgar Latin

Answer 28

A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect.