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| 7797345970 | acculturation | a process of adjustment to the dominant culture, while retaining features of folk culture, or syncretism ex: french language | 0 | |
| 7797348460 | assimilation | the process through which people lose original traits when they come in contact with another society or culture | 1 | |
| 7797352016 | creole/creolized language | a pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has became the nature language of a group of people | 2 | |
| 7797354502 | extinct language | when all people die out and no longer speak this language | 3 | |
| 7797354503 | franglais | french and english | 4 | |
| 7797358228 | indo-european family | largest most interbred language family | 5 | |
| 7797358229 | isogloss | a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic fracture occurs | 6 | |
| 7797360576 | isolated language | in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language | 7 | |
| 7797360577 | language | a set of sounds, combinations of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication | 8 | |
| 7797363061 | language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | 9 | |
| 7797363062 | language family | a group of languages descended from a single, earlier tongue | 10 | |
| 7797364990 | language group | languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language | 11 | |
| 7797367483 | lingua franca | a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce | 12 | |
| 7797367484 | literary tradition | the formation of literary conventions, that is, stylistic or formal devices or elements of subject matter which through being repeated in work after work, have become markers of different kinds or genres of writing. | 13 | |
| 7797372462 | monolingual country | only 1 language is spoken ex: portugal, venezuela, japan | 14 | |
| 7797375088 | multilingual country | more than 1 language is issued ex: canada, belguim | 15 | |
| 7797377617 | official language | the main language spoken in an area | 16 | |
| 7797377618 | oral tradition | relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth rather than in writing. | 17 | |
| 7797380494 | pidgin language | a language created when people combine parts of 2 or more languages into a simplified structure and vocabulary | 18 | |
| 7797385247 | received pronunciation (RP) | the standard form of British English pronunciation, based on educated speech in southern England. | 19 | |
| 7797387641 | sino-tibetan family | in a few sources also known as Tibeto-Burman or Trans-Himalayan, are a family of more than 400 languages spoken in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia | 20 | |
| 7797387642 | standard language | an official language sustained by the state in the form of state examination for teachers, civil servants and others | 21 | |
| 7797389501 | toponyms | used in the study of place names | 22 | |
| 7797391562 | vulgar latin | informal Latin of classical times. | 23 | |
| 7797416067 | dialect | a regional variation of a language | 24 | |
| 7797423503 | determine word choices | what is an isogloss used by geographers for? | 25 | |
| 7797435799 | creolized language | what would gallah language be described as? | 26 | |
| 7797462080 | caucasus | what area has the greatest linguistic fragmentation? | 27 | |
| 7797530897 | indo-european | which language family represents half of the worlds population? | 28 | |
| 7797541726 | mutual intelligibility | means two people can understand each other while speaking | 29 | |
| 7797549087 | trade | encouraged the spread of goods and languages | 30 | |
| 7797554403 | central asia | the indo-european language family includes the major languages of europe and those dominant in all of the following regions except | 31 | |
| 7800294828 | a historical inaccuracy that has nonetheless become folklore strongly tied to the national history of the united states | the notion that christopher columbus was the first european to "discover" america can be characterized as... | 32 | |
| 7800429754 | nigeria | has more than 500 languages | 33 | |
| 7800446139 | germatic, romance, balto-slavic, and indo-indian | the main branches of indo-european language family include... | 34 | |
| 7800639293 | belguim | flanders (flemish language) | 35 |
