A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is Dialect
100
A combination of English and German
What is Denglish
100
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What is Creole or creolized language
100
A Language that was once used by by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
What is Extinct Language
200
A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French Language.
What is Franglais
200
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
What is Isogloss
200
A language that is written as well as spoken.
What is Literary tradition
200
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
What is Lingua Franca
200
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.
What is Language branch
300
A system of communication through the use speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
What is Language
300
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
What is Language group
300
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
What is Official language
300
A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound.
What is Logogram
300
A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans
What is Spanglish
400
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
What is Language family
400
The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
What is Standard language
400
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
What is Isolated language
400
A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.
What is Vulgar Latin
400
The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the UK
What is Received Pronunciation
500
the ability to communicate in more than two languages
What is multilingualism
500
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca.
What is Pidgin language
500
an amalgamation of languages that borrows words from several
What is Pidgin
500
a condition in which many languages are spoken, each by a relatively small number of people