AP Human Geography Chapter 5 Vocab

the dialect of england associated with upper class britons living in the london area and now considered standard in the uk

a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

regional variation of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling and pronunciation

dialect spoken by some african -americans

language once used by people in daily activites but is no longer used

a term used by french for english words that have entered the french language, a combination of francais and anglais

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

boundary that seperates regions in which different language uses predominate

language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any family

system of communication through the use of speech, collection of sounds and understood by a group of people to have the same meaning

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

collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

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

language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

language that is written as well as spoken

language adopted for use by the government for conduct of business and publication of documents

form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocab of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of different languages

combination of english and spanish

form of a language used for official government business, education and mass communications

form of latin used in daily convo by ancient romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.