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| 5571566011 | Accent | A way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker. | 0 | |
| 5571566012 | Anatolian Hypothesis | The Proto-Indo-European language peacefully spread through the innovation of agriculture. | 1 | |
| 5571566013 | Creole | A pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it | 2 | |
| 5571566014 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 3 | |
| 5571566015 | Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 4 | |
| 5571566016 | Ideogram | a pictorial character or symbol that represents a specific meaning or idea | 5 | |
| 5571566017 | Indo-European | includes Germanic and romance languages, spoken b about 50% of the world's people | 6 | |
| 5571566018 | Nostratic Hypothesis | a hypothetical language family that is hypothesized to have given rise to the Eurasian languages | 7 | |
| 5571566019 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | 8 | |
| 5571566020 | Kurgan Hypothesis | The Proto-Indo-European language diffused from modern day Ukraine through conquest. | 9 | |
| 5571566021 | Language | A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning. | 10 | |
| 5571566022 | Language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family. | 11 | |
| 5571566023 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 12 | |
| 5571566024 | Language group | 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. | 13 | |
| 5571566025 | Lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. | 14 | |
| 5571566026 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken. | 15 | |
| 5571566027 | Monolinguality | Speaking only one language. | 16 | |
| 5571566028 | Bilinguality | Speaking two languages. | 17 | |
| 5571566029 | Multilinguality | Speaking several languages. | 18 | |
| 5571566030 | National language | a language with official status at a national level | 19 | |
| 5571566031 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 20 | |
| 5571566032 | Orthography | correct spelling | 21 | |
| 5571566033 | Pidgin | Language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language. | 22 | |
| 5571566034 | Polyglot | a speaker of many languages | 23 | |
| 5571566035 | Slang | A type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people | 24 | |
| 5571566036 | Standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 25 | |
| 5571566037 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 26 | |
| 5571566038 | Toponym | The name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | 27 | |
| 5571566039 | Trade language | A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other. | 28 | |
| 5571566040 | Vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people | 29 | |
| 5571566041 | Vocabulary | words used to communicate either a spoken or written message | 30 |
