A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
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Vulgar Latin
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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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pidgin language
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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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Developing Language
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A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.
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Lingua Franca
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A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
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Standard Language
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The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
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Institutional language
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A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.
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Ebonics
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Dialect spoken by some African Americans
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Subdialect
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A subdivision of a dialect
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Language Branch
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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, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.
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Logogram
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A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound
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Spanglish
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Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans.
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Isolated Language
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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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Language
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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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Dialect
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A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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Creole Langueage
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A language that results from a mixture of a colonizers language with the indigenous language
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Received Pronunciation (RP)
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The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.
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Language Group
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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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Denglish
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Combination of German and English
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Vigorous Language
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a language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition
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Official Language
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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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Franglais
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A combination of French and English
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Isogloss
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A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
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Literary Tradition
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A language that is written as well as spoken
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language family
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A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.