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| 8633252635 | Language | The system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other. | 0 | |
| 8633252636 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 1 | |
| 8633252637 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 2 | |
| 8633252639 | Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family. | 3 | |
| 8633252640 | 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. | 4 | |
| 8633252642 | Indo European | The largest language family in the world | 5 | |
| 8633252643 | accent | the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world | 6 | |
| 8633252644 | Anatolian Hypothesis | The Proto-Indo-European language peacefully spread through the innovation of agriculture. | 7 | |
| 8633252645 | creole | american born descendants of Europeans | 8 | |
| 8633252646 | extinct language | a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 9 | |
| 8633252647 | ideogram | a pictorial character or symbol that represents a specific meaning or idea | 10 | |
| 8633252648 | Nostratic Hypothesis | a hypothetical language family that is hypothesized to have given rise to the Eurasian languages | 11 | |
| 8633252649 | isogloss | a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | 12 | |
| 8633252650 | isolated language | language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any family | 13 | |
| 8633252651 | Kurgan Hypothesis | the Proto-Indo-European language diffused from modern day Ukraine through conquest. | 14 | |
| 8633252652 | lingua franca | a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce | 15 | |
| 8633252653 | literary tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken | 16 | |
| 8633252654 | mono, bi, multi linguality | speaking one, two, or more languages | 17 | |
| 8633252655 | national language | a language with official status at a national level | 18 | |
| 8633252656 | orthography | correct spelling | 19 | |
| 8633252657 | pidgin | a simplified form of speech developed from two or more languages | 20 | |
| 8633252658 | polygot | speaking several languages | 21 | |
| 8633252659 | slang | informal language | 22 | |
| 8633252660 | standard language | the form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 23 | |
| 8633252661 | syntax | sentence structure | 24 | |
| 8633252662 | trade language | a common language that emerges when countries trade with each other | 25 | |
| 8633252663 | vernacular | everyday language | 26 | |
| 8633252664 | vocabulary | a language user's knowledge of words | 27 | |
| 8633261117 | toponym | the name by which a geographical place is known | 28 | |
| 8633273437 | language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 29 |
