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| 8302325523 | Isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family | 0 | |
| 8302325524 | 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 | 1 | |
| 8302325525 | Language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches drive from the same family | 2 | |
| 8302325526 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 3 | |
| 8302325527 | Language group | I collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences and grammar and vocabulary | 4 | |
| 8302325528 | Lingua franca | I language mutually understood in commonly used in trade by people who have differently different native languages | 5 | |
| 8302325529 | Literary tradition | I language that is written as well as spoken | 6 | |
| 8302325530 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 7 | |
| 8302325531 | Pidgin language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua Franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages | 8 | |
| 8302325532 | Spanglish | Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans | 9 | |
| 8302325533 | Standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications | 10 | |
| 8302325534 | Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents | 11 |
