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Chapter 5
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Geography
9th Grade
05/16/2012

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British received Pronunciation
Definition
Speech commonly used by ploiyicians,broadcasters and acters.
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Standard Language
Definition
A dialect that is well established and widely reconized as the most acceptable for gov., business, edu. and mass communication.
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Creole
Definition
A language that re sults from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
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Dialect
Definition
Regional variation of a language distinguishing by distinctive vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.
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Ebonics
Definition
A combination of ebony and phonics
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Pidgin Language
Definition
A group that learns English or another lingua franca may learn a simplified form.
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Exinct Language
Definition
Thousand of languages
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Franglais
Definition
A combination of fianeals and anglais, the french word for french and english
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Ideograms
Definition
Represent ideas or concepts, not specific pronunciations
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Isogloss
Definition
Word-usage boundary can be constructed for each word.
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Language branch
Definition
A collection of languages related through common ancestral alnguages that existed several thousand years ago.
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Language group
Definition
A collection of languages within a branch that shear a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
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Isolated language
Definition
A language unrelated to any other and therefor not attached to any langage family.
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Language
Definition
A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group people understands to have the same meaning.
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Literary tradition
Definition
A system of written communication
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Official language
Definition
The one used by the gov. for laws, reports and public objects, such as road signs, money and stamps.
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Language family
Definition
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral languages that existed lang. before recored history.
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Lingua Franca
Definition
A language of international communication, such as English.
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Spanglish
Definition
Combination of Spanish and  English
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Vulgar Latin
Definition
The latain that people in the provinces learned was not the standard literary form, but a spoken form.
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