Language
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| 5431660062 | Accent | A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. | 0 | |
| 5431660063 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. | 1 | |
| 5431660065 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. | 2 | |
| 5431660066 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) | 3 | |
| 5431660067 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. | 4 | |
| 5431660068 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language. | 5 | |
| 5431660069 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance Branch of the Indo-European language family. | 6 | |
| 5431660070 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. | 7 | |
| 5431660071 | 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. | 8 | |
| 5431660072 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 9 | |
| 5431660073 | Indo European language family | Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. | 10 | |
| 5431660074 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese | 11 | |
| 5431660075 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 12 | |
| 5431660076 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 13 | |
| 5431660077 | Monolingualism | The condition of being able to speak only a single language | 14 | |
| 5431660078 | Bilingualism | The ability to speak two languages | 15 | |
| 5431660079 | Multilingualism | The ability to speak multiple languages | 16 | |
| 5431660080 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 17 | |
| 5431660081 | Orthography | The conventional spelling system of a language. | 18 | |
| 5431660082 | Pidgin | 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. | 19 | |
| 5431660083 | Standard Language | The dialect of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 20 | |
| 5431660084 | Toponym | a place name or a word derived from the name of a place | 21 | |
| 5431660085 | Trade Language | A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade. | 22 | |
| 5431660086 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language | 23 | |
| 5431681681 | Vulgar Latin | spoken form of Latin used by the masses but not used for formal written language | 24 | |
| 5431709438 | British Received Pronunciation | Standard language for Great Britain | 25 | |
| 5431713527 | Syntax | the grammatical arrangement of a language | 26 | |
| 5431717194 | Linguistic Diversity | Learning/using more than one language (on a small scale -- the individual or large scale-- a country or society) | 27 | |
| 5431730494 | Creole or creolized language | A language that is a mix of the colonizer and the indigenous language | 28 | |
| 5431737316 | Denglish | Combination of English and German | 29 | |
| 5431737317 | Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African Americans | 30 | |
| 5431740592 | Spanglish | Combination of English and Spanish | 31 | |
| 5431740593 | Language subfamilies | Smaller groups within a language family | 32 |
