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8083365408guided by practicality and religionfolk0
8083368096customs that are traditionfolk1
8083373693small populations that take up small areasfolk2
8083379069in isolated areasfolk3
8083387792homogeneousfolk4
8083391232anonymous hearthsfolk5
8083396982agricultural originsfolk6
8083402075connected to environment - evidence to environmental determinismfolk7
8083409348diffuses through migration - relocation diffusionfolk8
8083411349guided by desires for moneypop9
8083414091habits that are individually drivenpop10
8083414092heterogeneouspop11
8083421029widely distributed in population and spacepop12
8083434697diffuses through expansionspop13
8083436654washes out traditional culturepop14
8083442857individuals make their living through new ideas - occupations are associated w industry or technologypop15
8083452771a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by people to have the same meaninglanguage16
8083454640a language that is written as well as spokenliterary tradition17
8083459875the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documentsofficial language18
8083464948a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciationdialect19
8083469147a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominateisogloss20
8083474870the form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communicationsstandard language21
8083479469the dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered the standard language in the UKBritish Received Pronunciation (BRP)22
8083486833a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded historylanguage family23
8083504220a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago; not very extensive nor old; archaeological evidence shows that these all come from the same familylanguage branch24
8083511570a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabularylanguage group25
8083517313a form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documentsVulgar Latin26
8083523754a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominatedcreole (creolized language)27
8083531515the system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each system represents an idea or concept rather than a specific soundideograms28
8083534479a language that was once used by people in daily activities, but is no longer usedextinct language29
8083540340a language that is unrelated to any other languages, and, because of that, isn't attached to a language familyisolated language30
8083549431a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have native languageslingua franca31
8083557226a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary for lingua franca; used for the communications among speakers of two languagespidgin language32
8083560113dialect spoken by some African-Americansebonics33
8083565200a term used for English words that have entered the French languageFranglais34
8083567693combination of English and SpanishSpanglish35
8083567715combination of German and EnglishDenglish36
8083580453what are the top ten languages in order?chinese, spanish, english, arabic, hindi, bangladesh, portuguese, russian, japanese, lahnda37
8083596264which language family is the largestindo-european38
8083598408which language family is the second largest?sino-tibetan39
8083601128in which language family is english?indo-european40
8083607247in which branch of the family, that english is in, is english?west-germanic41
8083612719what is the largest language in the romance branchspanish42
8083618369example of official languagefrench and english are canada's two official languages43
8083623183example of isoglosspeople from different places using words from their area to describe one picture44
8083642693example of extinct languagewhen spanish missionaries reached the amazon region of peru in the 1500s, there were 500s languages, but there are only 92 remaining today45
8083650510example of isolated languageBasque, a european language formed before the indo-european branch, and hasn't been successfully linked to any other european language46
8083661185example of lingua francaenglish is the world's universal lingua franca47

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