Ch. 5 Vocab. Standard Language Def: the form of language used for official government, business, and mass communication Sig: as with English, it doesn’t.

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Ch. 5 Vocab

Standard Language Def: the form of language used for official government, business, and mass communication Sig: as with English, it doesn’t have to be the official language by law

Dialect Def: a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation Sig: If isolated enough it may diverge into a separate language

Mutual Intelligibility Def: the ability of two people to understand each other when talking Sig: it determines whether they are speaking two dialects or different languages

Extinct Language Def: a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used Ex: Latin and Cornish

Backward (Reverse) Reconstruction Def: the tracking of sound shifts and hardening consonants “backward” toward the original language Ex: English: father (newest), Dutch: vader, German: vater (oldest)

Language Divergence & Convergence Convergence: the combining of 2 languages into one b/c of interaction Divergence: the splitting of one language into two b/c of isolation

Gimbutas Hypothesis Def: theory on how Indo-European spread throughout Eurasia Hearth: above Caspian Sea (4k b.c.) How: conquest by horseback by the Kurgans

Renfrew Hypothesis Def: theory on how Indo-European spread throughout Eurasia Hearth: Anatolia (Turkey), 6,700 b.c. How: through the diffusion of agriculture

Lingua franca a language used among speakers of different speakers for the purpose of trade and commerce Ex: Bazaar Malay (pidgin) & English

Pidgin combination of 2 or more languages to allow communication across language groups Simplified structure and vocabulary (no native speakers)

Creole language a pidgin language that developed a more complex structure and vocabulary & has become a native language Ex: Belizean Creole

Monoligual States Def: countries in which one language is spoken (e.g. South Korea) Sig: less common due to migration

Should Also Knows

Dialect Chain Def: a string of dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related Sig: dialects on opposite ends may no longer be mutually intelligible

Sino-Tibetan Family Family that includes Mandarin Chinese (845 million native speakers) Second largest language family (21%)

Ideograms Def: a graphic symbol that represents a concept or idea Ex: Chinese characters

Ebonics Def: African American vernacular English (non-standard English)

Esperanto Def: easy to learn, politically neutral language created to help people of different languages communicate Sig: relatively few native speakers

Franglais/Spanglish Def: a combination, or interlanguage, between French/English and Spanish/English

Monoglot/polyglot Def: monolingual/multilingual

Toponym Def: place names Sig: they can help us see migration patterns (e.g. New England & San Francisco)