FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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RUBENSTEIN CHAPTER 5 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: What is vulgar Latin?

Answer:

It is a form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect.

Question 2: What is a creolized language?

Answer:

It is a language that results from mixing a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of those being dominated.

Question 3: What is an institutional language?

Answer:

It is a language used in education, work, mass media, and government.

Question 4: What is Ebonics?

Answer:

It is a dialect spoken by some African-Americans.

Question 5: What is Franglais?

Answer:

It is a combination of French and English.

Question 6: What is a subdialect?

Answer:

It is a subdivision of a dialect.

Question 7: What is a pidgin language?

Answer:

It is a form of speech adopting a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca.

Question 8: What is a lingua franca?

Answer:

It is a language mutually understood by people who have different native languages.

Question 9: What is a logogram?

Answer:

It is a symbol that represents a word rather than a sound.

Question 10: What is a literary tradition?

Answer:

It is a language that is written as well as spoken.

Question 11: What is a language family?

Answer:

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

Question 12: What is a language branch?

Answer:

It is a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence.

Question 13: What is an isogloss?

Answer:

It is a boundary that separates regions in which different language uses predominate.

Question 14: What is Spanglish?

Answer:

It is a combination of English and Spanish.

Question 15: What is a Received Pronunciation (RP)?

Answer:

It is the dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons and is now the standard of the United Kingdom.

Question 16: What is a vigorous language?

Answer:

It is a language spoken in daily use which lacks a literary tradition.

Question 17: What is a developing language?

Answer:

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

Question 18: What is Denglish?

Answer:

It is a combination of German and English.

Question 19: What is an extinct language?

Answer:

It is a language once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.

Question 20: What is a language group?

Answer:

It is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past.

Question 21: What is an isolated language?

Answer:

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

Question 22: What is a language?

Answer:

It is a system of communication through the use of speech with a collection of sounds understood by a group of people.

Question 23: What is a standard language?

Answer:

It is the form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communication.

Question 24: What is a dialect?

Answer:

It is a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

Question 25: What is an official language?

Answer:

It is the language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.