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3431596325Anglo~American landscaperegion in u.s. which English is main language0
3431599807taboosocial custom forbidding particular practice1
3431603206koshergenuine and legitimate2
3431608338dowryproperty or money brought by bride to her husband on their marriage3
3431615565uniform landscapespatial expression of a popular custom in one location similar to another4
3431622764adaptive strategieschanged, mix of productive activities5
3431627061languagemethod of human communication. consisting of the use of words in structured and conventional way6
3431634845literary traditionlanguage that's written as well as spoken7
3431637501official languagelanguage adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business8
3431647464dialectpracticular form of a language that's peculiar to a specific region or social group9
3431654417isoglossa line on a dialect map making the boundary between linguistic features10
3431660618standard languagea language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse11
3431667492language familycollection of languages that come from the same roots12
3431670546language branchgroup of languages that relate to family13
3431674097language groupcollection of language that is related to language branch14
3431682334Indo-eroupean languagea large, widespread family of languages in the same tree15
3431685725creolenative language mixes with another language16
3431692102nomadic warrior thesis1st pronto indoeuropean speakers where the kurgans near the border17
3431730887sedentary farmer thesis2000 years ago before the kurgans the first indoeuropean speakers lived I. east anatodia18
3431738781ideogramsa written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it19
3431741613language treemodel or graphic picture used to show the historic relationship between different language20
3431764084extinct languageslanguage no longer spoken21
3431765811monolingualspeaking only one language22
3431767823multilingualmore than one language is spoken23
3431770200isolated languagehas no relationship to any other language24
3431771848lingua francaa language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different25
3431771849trade languagespecial language used for trade26
3431774794EbonicsAmerican black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English.27
3431774795pidgin languagedenoting a simplified form of a language, especially as used by a nonnative28
3431778343Spanglishlanguage combining words from Spanish and English29
3431788387toponymythe study of place names30

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