AP Human Geography Chapter 5 Vocab – Flashcards with Answers
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british received pronunciation (BRP)
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the dialect of england associated with upper class britons living in the london area and now considered standard in the uk
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creole or creolized language
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a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
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dialect
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regional variation of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling and pronunciation
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ebonics
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dialect spoken by some african -americans
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extinct language
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language once used by people in daily activites but is no longer used
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franglais
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a term used by french for english words that have entered the french language, a combination of francais and anglais
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ideograms
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system of writing used in china and other east asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a sound, as is the case for english
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isogloss
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boundary that seperates regions in which different language uses predominate
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isolated language
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language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any family
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language
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system of communication through the use of speech, collection of sounds and understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
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language branch
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collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family
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language family
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collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
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language group
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collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocab
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lingua franca
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language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
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literary tradition
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language that is written as well as spoken
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official language
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language adopted for use by the government for conduct of business and publication of documents
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pidgin language
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form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocab of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of different languages
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spanglish
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combination of english and spanish
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standard language
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form of a language used for official government business, education and mass communications
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vulgar latin
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form of latin used in daily convo by ancient romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.
