Language
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| 5900748597 | Accent | A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. | 0 | |
| 5900748598 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. | 1 | |
| 5900748600 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. | 2 | |
| 5900748601 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) | 3 | |
| 5900748602 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. | 4 | |
| 5900748603 | 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 | |
| 5900748604 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance Branch of the Indo-European language family. | 6 | |
| 5900748605 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. | 7 | |
| 5900748606 | 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 | |
| 5900748607 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 9 | |
| 5900748608 | 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 | |
| 5900748609 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese | 11 | |
| 5900748610 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 12 | |
| 5900748611 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 13 | |
| 5900748612 | Monolingualism | The condition of being able to speak only a single language | 14 | |
| 5900748613 | Bilingualism | The ability to speak two languages | 15 | |
| 5900748614 | Multilingualism | The ability to speak multiple languages | 16 | |
| 5900748615 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 17 | |
| 5900748617 | 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. | 18 | |
| 5900748618 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 19 | |
| 5900748619 | Toponym | a place name or a word derived from the name of a place | 20 | |
| 5900748620 | Trade Language | A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade. | 21 | |
| 5900748621 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language | 22 | |
| 5900775723 | Creole | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 23 | |
| 5900783730 | linguistic fragmentation | a condition in which many languages are spoken, each by a relatively small number of people | 24 | |
| 5900795300 | institutional language | a language using in education, work, mass media, and government | 25 | |
| 5900799766 | Logogram | a symbol that represents a word rather than a sound | 26 | |
| 5900805350 | Received Pronunciation | The dialect of English associated with upper class Britons, living in London and now considered standard in the United Kigndom | 27 | |
| 5900818955 | 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 | 28 | |
| 8201816671 | linguists | scholars who study languages | 29 | |
| 8201819463 | language tree | a graph showing relationships between a proto-language and its descendants; family-branch-group-language-dialect | 30 | |
| 8201835489 | adage | a familiar proverb or wise saying | 31 | |
| 8201839702 | Swahili | an Arabic-influenced Bantu language that is spoken widely in eastern and central Africa | 32 |
