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| British Received Pronounciation (BRP) |
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| A dialect of English that is recognized in much of the English-speaking world as the standard form of British speech. It is well know because it is commonly used by politicans, boradcasters, and actors. |
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| Creole or creolized language |
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| language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people dominated. |
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| A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronounciation. |
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| A combination of ebony and phonics. |
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| Languages that were once in use, even recently, but aren't used for activities or read/spoken by anyone in the world. |
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| A combination of Francais and anglais, the french word for French and English |
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| Graphs that represent ideas or concepts, not specific pronounciations. |
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| Every word that is not used nationally has some geographic extent within the country and trherefore had boundaries. |
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| A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family. |
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| A system of commmunication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning. |
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| A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousands of years ago. |
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| A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history. |
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| A Collection of languages within a branch that share a commmon origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. |
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| A language of international communication, such as English.. |
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| A system of written communications. |
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| the one used by the goverment for laws, reports, and public objects. Such as road signs, money, and stamps. |
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| A Group that learns English or another Lingua franca may learn a simplified form. |
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| a combination of Spanish and English |
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| The dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for the government, business, education, and mass communication. |
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| The latin that people in the provinces learned that wasnt the standard literary form, but a spoken form. |
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