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| British Recieved Pronunciation (BRP) |
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| The dialect of English 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 a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being donminated. |
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| A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling, and pronunciation. |
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| Dialect spoken by some African-Americans. |
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| A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. |
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| A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French Language, a combonation of francais and anglais, the French words for "French" and "English", respectively. |
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| The system of writing used in China and other east asian countries is which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as in the case with letters in English. |
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| A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. |
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| A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. |
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| A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning. |
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| A 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. Can be confirmed that they are derived from the same family. |
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| A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancester long before recorded history. |
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| A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent path and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. |
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| A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. |
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| A language that is written as well as spoken. |
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| The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |
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| A form of speech that adopts a simplified gammar and limited vocab of a lingua franca, used for communications amongst speakers of two different languages. |
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| Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans. |
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| The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |
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| A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents. |
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