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| 8613894309 | accent | the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world | 0 | |
| 8613898098 | anatolian hypothisis | The Anatolian hypothesis of Proto-Indo-European origin is that the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language lived in Anatolia during the Neolithic era. When the Neolithic Revolution took place in the seventh and sixth millennia BC, the speakers spread over Europe. | 1 | |
| 8613899224 | creole | Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America, usually implies an upper class status. | 2 | |
| 8613899225 | dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 3 | |
| 8613903819 | extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 4 | |
| 8613905798 | ideogram | a pictorial character or symbol that represents a specific meaning or idea | 5 | |
| 8613905799 | indo-european | largest language family | 6 | |
| 8613908818 | nostratic hypothesis | Nostratic hypothesis, proposed, but still controversial, language family of northern Eurasia | 7 | |
| 8613909874 | isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | 8 | |
| 8613909875 | isolated language | language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any family | 9 | |
| 8613911347 | kurgan hypothisis | It postulates that the people of a Kurgan culture in the Pontic steppe north of the Black Sea were the most likely speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language | 10 | |
| 8613912445 | language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | 11 | |
| 8613912446 | language branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | 12 | |
| 8613913488 | language family | a group of similar languages | 13 | |
| 8613913489 | language group | set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics | 14 | |
| 8613914906 | lingua franca | a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce | 15 | |
| 8613916261 | literary tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken | 16 | |
| 8613917718 | mono-linguality | Speaking only one language | 17 | |
| 8613918754 | bi-linguality | Speaking two languages | 18 | |
| 8613919539 | multi-linguality | Speaking several languages | 19 | |
| 8613919540 | national language | a language with official status at a national level | 20 | |
| 8613921654 | official language | the required language of instruction in schools, government business, courts, etc | 21 | |
| 8613922738 | orthography | correct spelling | 22 | |
| 8613924161 | pidgin | a simplified form of speech developed from two or more languages | 23 | |
| 8613924162 | polyglot | multi-linguist | 24 | |
| 8613926877 | slang | informal language | 25 | |
| 8613926878 | standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 26 | |
| 8613928071 | synax | sentence structure | 27 | |
| 8613928072 | toponym | place name | 28 | |
| 8613929225 | trade language | a common language that emerges when countries trade with each other | 29 | |
| 8613930521 | vernacular | everyday language | 30 | |
| 8613931743 | vocabulary | a language user's knowledge of words | 31 |
