AP Human Geography Vocab. 5

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

• Combined Language

• Acculturated Language

• Creole (or creolized) Language

• Assimiliated Language

A combination of Deutsch (the German word for German) and English.

• Foreign Language

• Denglish

• Combined Language

• Developing Language

A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.

• Ideal Language

• Developing Language

• Rare Language

• Rare Culture

A dialect spoken by some African Americans.

• English

• American English

• Ebonics

• Spanish

A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.

• Vigorous Language

• Extinct Language

• Endangered Language

• Pidgin Language

A combination of francais and anglais (the French words for French and English, repectively).

• French

• Spanglish

• Franglais

• Denglish

A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.

• Subdialect

• Institutional Language

• Working Language

• Standard Language

A boundary that separates reions in which different language usages predominate.

• Isogloss

• Isolated Language

• Pidgin Language

• Relining

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

• Vulgar Tradition

• Endangered Language

• Isolated Language

• Logogram

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

• Speech

• Vulgar Latin

• Language

• Dialect