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?
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 Language?
100
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?
200
A combination of Deutsch and English
What is Denglish?
200
A combination of Francais and Anglais
What is Franglais?
200
A language that is written as well as spoken
What is Literary tradition?
300
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
What is Lingua Franca?
300
A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.
What is Institutional Language?
300
the only example of a vigorous isolated language in Europe
What is Basque?
400
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?
400
A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans.
What is Spanglish?
400
a language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition
What is a Vigorous Language?
500
A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound.
What is a Logogram?
500
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history