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| British Received Pronunciation |
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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 Kingdom. |
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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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| regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. |
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| Dialect spoken by some African-Americans, sometimes called “Black English Vernacular,” or “BEV.” |
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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 |
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| The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is 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 |
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| collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. |
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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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| 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 grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages |
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| of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans |
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| form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |
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| The informal form of a language commonly spoken by people in daily life. |
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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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