Chapter 5

3. A language at risk of extinction because it has few surviving speakers.
6. A combination of Spanish and English spoken by some Hispanic Americans.
7. A language that was once used by people in daily activities
9. A regional variety of a language distinguish by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
15. Language A language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition.
16. The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
17. A language used by older people, but is not being transmitted to children.
22. A language used for face-to-face communication, but is loosing users.
23. 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.
24. A language mutually understood and commonly use in trade by people who have different native languages.

1. A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communication among speakers of two different languages.
2. A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.
4. A language the is unrelated to an other language and therefore not attached to any language family.
5. 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.
8. A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominate.
10. A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.
11. A dialect spoken by some African Americans.
12. A language that is written as as well as spoken.
13. A boundary that separates regions in which different regions in which different languages usages predominate.
14. A combination of Deutsch (the German word for German) and English.
18. A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
19. A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound.
20. A combination of francais and anglias (the French words for French and English, respectfully).
21. A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence.