A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
What is an isolated language?
100
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and
publication of documents.
What is an official language?
100
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is dialect?
100
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
What is a language?
100
A language that is written as well as spoken.
What is a literary tradition?
200
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 a pidgin language?
200
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What is a creolized language?
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 language families.
What is a language branch?
200
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 a language group?
200
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
What is a lingua franca?
300
English is the _____ in Canada, Ireland, Scotland, and South Africa.
What is an official language?
300
A system of writing used in China and over East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather then a specific sound as is the case with letters in English. Also called a logogram.
What is an ideogram?
300
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
What is a language family?
300
British English, American English, Scottish English, and Australian English are all examples of _____.
What is a dialect?
300
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
What is an isogloss?
400
Spanglish, denglish, and franglais are examples of ______?
What is a pidgin language?
400
Haitian Creole, Lousiana Creole, and Mauritian Creole are all _____ of French.
What is a creolized language?
400
English, Mandarin, Swahili, Hindu, and Spanish are all example of _____.
What is a language?
400
Balto-Slavic, Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Iranian are all _____.
What is a language branch?
400
English is considered a _____ because it isn't commonly spoken by people around the world.
What is lingua franca?
500
Korean is an example of _____ because it has no similarities to other languages.
What is an isolated language?
500
Chinese characters are considered _____ that symbolize an idea or concept.
What is an ideogram?
500
West Germanic is the _____ that the English language is a part of.
What is a language group?
500
Indo-European is the largest _____.
What is a language family?
500
The alphabet is a _____ in many languages, including English, Spanish, French, and more.