LINGUISTIC VARIETIES & MULTILINGUAL NATIONS & CREOLES & PIDGINS

What is vernacular language ?

• Has not been standardised

• Does not have official status

• Has not been standardised and does not have official status

Which one is examples word in vernacular languages ?

• Baring

• Buang

How many components does vernacular languages have ?

• 4

• 3

• 2

It is an unstandardized variety or

(a)  

Choose two of term vernacular refers to a language

• Never been written down or described

• Relatively limited functions

• Not the official language

Australia is using a vernacular language

(a)  

Country that using a vernacular language

(a)  

What is standard lamguage ?

• Recognised as a prestigous variety or code by a community

• Use for H functions alongside a diversity of L varieties

• All above

What is codification ?

• Written, and had undergone some degreee of regularisation of codification ( for example, in a dictionary or in terms of grammar)

• Achived through grammars and dictionaries which record, and sometimes prescribe, the standard forms of the language

Essential criteria which characterise a standard languages

(a)