A language that is written as well as spoken.
Example: The English language
What is literary tradition?
100
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages
What is pidgin language?
200
Definition: a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
Example: Swahili on the continent of Africa
What is lingua franca?
200
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
Example: the Gothic language
What is extinct language?
300
Definition: the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
Example: Hindi in India
What is official language?
300
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
Example: Romance, Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic
What is language branch?
400
Definition: a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Example: French Creole in Haiti
What is creole language/ creolized language?
400
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.
Example: West Germanic
What is language group?
500
Definition: a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
Example: American English
What is dialect?
500
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
Example: Indo-European