the dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the U.K.
What is British Recieved Pronunciation (BRP)?
100
a language that was once used but no longer is
What is extinct language?
100
A system of communication through the use is speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
What is language?
100
A language that is written as well as spoken.
What is literary tradition?
100
A form of Latin used in daily conversations by ancient romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.
What is Vulgar Latin?
200
a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer language with the indigenous peoples language
What is Creole or creolized language?
200
the combo of French and English (pidgin language)
What is Franglais?
200
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago
What is a language branch?
200
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
What is official language?
300
the combo of German and English (pidgin language)
What is Denglish?
300
Ideograms
What is the system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a sound.
300
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor long before recorded history
What is language family?
300
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocab of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
What is pidgin language?
400
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling, and pronunciation
What is dialect?
400
Isogloss
What is a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
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.
What is language group?
400
Combo of Spanish and English (pidgin language)
What is Spanglish?
500
a dialect spoken by some African Americans
What is Ebonics?
500
a language that is unrelated to other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
What is an isolated language?
500
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
What is Lingua Franca?
500
The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications