AP Human Geography: Chapter Five: Language
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- a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning
- Language
- the dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.
- British Received Pronunciation (BRP)
- A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
- Creole or Creolized Language
- a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
- Dialect
- Dialect spoken by some African Americans.
- Ebonics
- a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
- Extinct Language
- a term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language, a combination of François and Anglais
- Franglais
- characters that represent ideas or concepts
- Ideograms
- a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
- Isogloss
- a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
- Isolated Language
- A collection of languages that existed through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
- Language Branch
- a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
- Language Family
- 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
- Language Group
- a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
- Lingua Franca
- a language that is written as well as spoken
- Literary Tradition
- language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects
- Official Language
- a form of speech that adopts a simplified and limited vocabulary of lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages
- Pidgin Language
- combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans
- Spanglish
- a dialect that is well-established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for the government, business, education, and mass communication
- Standard language
- a form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents
- Vulgar Latin