Vocab Collage
Tanner McDonald & Michael Vo
Dialect
EX: southerners in England pronounce words like grass and path with an /ah/ sound
Extinct Language
EX: the Gothic language was widely spoken by people in Eastern and Northern Europe in the third century
Isogloss
EX: the line that separates those who say bucket or pail in America
Language Branch
EX: the Romance languages are spoken in southwextensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.estern Europe and Latin America
Language Family
EX: Indo-European is the world's most extensively spoken language family
Lingua Franca
EX: originally applied to the language that the Arab traders used to communicate with Europeans in the Middle Age
Official Language
EX: many countries that were once British colonies us English as their official language though few of their citizens can speak it
Pidgin Language
EX: Liberian English is spoken in Liberia
Spanglish
EX: shorts in English becomes chores in Spanglish
Standard Language
EX: BRP is recognized by many English speaking countries
Ideogram
EX: People look at the Egyptian Hieroglyphics as an ideogram because they used symbols to represent ideas.
Langauge
EX: People who live in America learn how to speak English because that is what most people speak.