Ch. 5 Vocab Flashcards
The dialect of English Associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the UK
British Received Pronunciation (BRP)
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
Creole (or Creolized Language)
Combination of German and English
Denglish
A regional variety of language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Dialect
Dialect spoken by some African-Americans
Ebonics
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
Extinct Language
A term used by the French or English for words that have entered the French language - comb. of francais and anglais the French words of “French” and “English”
Franglais
The system of writing used in China or other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English
Ideograms
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
Isogloss
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
Isolated Language
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
Language
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand ears ago
Language Branch
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
Language Family
A collection of languages w/in a branch that share a common origin in the relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
Language Group
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
Lingua Franca
