Language
5918402376 | Accent | A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. | 0 | |
5918402377 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. | 1 | |
5918402378 | Esperanto | An artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages. | 2 | |
5918402379 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. | 3 | |
5918402380 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) | 4 | |
5918402381 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. | 5 | |
5918402382 | 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. | 6 | |
5918402383 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. | 7 | |
5918402384 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. | 8 | |
5918402385 | 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. | 9 | |
5918402386 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 10 | |
5918402387 | 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. | 11 | |
5918402388 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese | 12 | |
5918402389 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 13 | |
5918402390 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 14 | |
5918402391 | Monolingual | The condition of being able to speak only a single language | 15 | |
5918402392 | Bilingual | The ability to speak two languages | 16 | |
5918402393 | Multilingual | The ability to speak multiple languages | 17 | |
5918402394 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 18 | |
5918402395 | Orthography | The conventional spelling system of a language. | 19 | |
5918402396 | 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. | 20 | |
5918402397 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 21 | |
5918402398 | Toponym | a place name or a word derived from the name of a place | 22 | |
5918402399 | Trade Language | A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade. | 23 | |
5918402400 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people. | 24 | |
5918402401 | Creole | a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage | 25 | |
5918402402 | Denglish | The term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German. | 26 | |
5918402403 | Franglais | a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English. | 27 | |
5918402404 | Ebonics | American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English | 28 | |
5918402405 | Spanglish | a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions. | 29 |