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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 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 regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation |
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| the form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications |
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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 United Kindom |
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| a boundary that separates regions in which different language uses predominate |
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| a collection of languages related through a common ancestor long before recorded history |
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| a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago |
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| 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 |
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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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| 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 dominated |
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| the system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in Englich |
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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 language that is mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
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| 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 |
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| a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore no attached to any language family |
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| dialect spiken by some african-americans |
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| a term used by French for english words that have entered the French language; a combination of "francais" and "anglais," the french words for "french" and "english," respectively |
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| combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans |
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