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Vocabulary
Vocabulary pt2
Languages
key terms/ concepts
key terms/ concepts pt2
100
A system of communication
What is language?
100
Written language
What is literary tradition?
100
Madarin
What is the most spoken language in the world?
100
English
Which language is most widely spread around the world?
100
A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans.
What is Spanglish?
200
A language adopted by the government for use of official things
What is an official language?
200
Language from the mixing of colonizer language with indigenous language
What is a creole language?
200
West Germanic
What group is English in?
200
British Received pronunciation
What does BRP stand for?
200
represents a specific sound instead of a concept or idea
What does an english letter represent?
300
a combination of german and english
What is denglish?
300
Dialect spoken by some African Americans
What is Ebonics?
300
Arabic, Chinese, Acryllic, Latin
What are the four main writing systems?
300
Korean and Japanese
What are two examples of languages that are their own family?
300
The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London an now considered standard in the United Kingdom
What is BPR?
400
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunication
What is a dialect?
400
a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
What is isogloss
400
The latin language used by roman soldiers and for daily conversation back way when
What is Vulgar Latin?
400
a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
What is an extinct language?
400
a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to to any language family
What is an isolated language?
500
Found in areas of language borders
What is a pidgin language?
500
The system of writing used in China and other East Asia countries
What is an ideogram
500
Swahili
What is the most common language spoken in the Niger-Congo family?
500
represents an idea or concept rather than specific sound
What does an ideogram represent?
500
a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
What is lingua franca?