8083365408 | guided by practicality and religion | folk | 0 | |
8083368096 | customs that are tradition | folk | 1 | |
8083373693 | small populations that take up small areas | folk | 2 | |
8083379069 | in isolated areas | folk | 3 | |
8083387792 | homogeneous | folk | 4 | |
8083391232 | anonymous hearths | folk | 5 | |
8083396982 | agricultural origins | folk | 6 | |
8083402075 | connected to environment - evidence to environmental determinism | folk | 7 | |
8083409348 | diffuses through migration - relocation diffusion | folk | 8 | |
8083411349 | guided by desires for money | pop | 9 | |
8083414091 | habits that are individually driven | pop | 10 | |
8083414092 | heterogeneous | pop | 11 | |
8083421029 | widely distributed in population and space | pop | 12 | |
8083434697 | diffuses through expansions | pop | 13 | |
8083436654 | washes out traditional culture | pop | 14 | |
8083442857 | individuals make their living through new ideas - occupations are associated w industry or technology | pop | 15 | |
8083452771 | a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by people to have the same meaning | language | 16 | |
8083454640 | a language that is written as well as spoken | literary tradition | 17 | |
8083459875 | the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | official language | 18 | |
8083464948 | a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | dialect | 19 | |
8083469147 | a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | isogloss | 20 | |
8083474870 | the form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications | standard language | 21 | |
8083479469 | the dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered the standard language in the UK | British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | 22 | |
8083486833 | a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | language family | 23 | |
8083504220 | a 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 family | language branch | 24 | |
8083511570 | 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 | language group | 25 | |
8083517313 | a form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents | Vulgar Latin | 26 | |
8083523754 | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | creole (creolized language) | 27 | |
8083531515 | the system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each system represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound | ideograms | 28 | |
8083534479 | a language that was once used by people in daily activities, but is no longer used | extinct language | 29 | |
8083540340 | a language that is unrelated to any other languages, and, because of that, isn't attached to a language family | isolated language | 30 | |
8083549431 | a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have native languages | lingua franca | 31 | |
8083557226 | a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary for lingua franca; used for the communications among speakers of two languages | pidgin language | 32 | |
8083560113 | dialect spoken by some African-Americans | ebonics | 33 | |
8083565200 | a term used for English words that have entered the French language | Franglais | 34 | |
8083567693 | combination of English and Spanish | Spanglish | 35 | |
8083567715 | combination of German and English | Denglish | 36 | |
8083580453 | what are the top ten languages in order? | chinese, spanish, english, arabic, hindi, bangladesh, portuguese, russian, japanese, lahnda | 37 | |
8083596264 | which language family is the largest | indo-european | 38 | |
8083598408 | which language family is the second largest? | sino-tibetan | 39 | |
8083601128 | in which language family is english? | indo-european | 40 | |
8083607247 | in which branch of the family, that english is in, is english? | west-germanic | 41 | |
8083612719 | what is the largest language in the romance branch | spanish | 42 | |
8083618369 | example of official language | french and english are canada's two official languages | 43 | |
8083623183 | example of isogloss | people from different places using words from their area to describe one picture | 44 | |
8083642693 | example of extinct language | when spanish missionaries reached the amazon region of peru in the 1500s, there were 500s languages, but there are only 92 remaining today | 45 | |
8083650510 | example of isolated language | Basque, a european language formed before the indo-european branch, and hasn't been successfully linked to any other european language | 46 | |
8083661185 | example of lingua franca | english is the world's universal lingua franca | 47 |
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