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| 8122214564 | agricultural theory | says how proto indo european language diffused into europe and it occured through the diffusion of agriculture. Each generation(25 years) the agricultural frontier moved approx 11 miles | 0 | |
| 8122228736 | conquest theory | theory of how proto indo european language diffused into europe which hold that the early speaker diffused it and others began to talk like that | 1 | |
| 8122367487 | creole | language derived from pidgin and that languange then became the 1st language for several people | 2 | |
| 8122372605 | dialect | a distinctive local or regional variant of a language that remains mutually intelligible to other speakers of that language | 3 | |
| 8122381131 | generic toponym | descriptive part of many place names, often repeated through a culture | 4 | |
| 8122389054 | ideograms | the system of writing used in china and other east asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept | 5 | |
| 8122394805 | isoglosses | the bounderies around an area of space where there are variations in pronunciations or word usage | 6 | |
| 8122401888 | isolated language | a language that is unrelated to any other languages and are not attached to any language family | 7 | |
| 8122408651 | language branch/subfamily | a collection of languages in a language family that existed several hundred years ago | 8 | |
| 8122416689 | language convergence | the collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the constant spaital interaction of peoples with different languages | 9 | |
| 8122422599 | language divergence | new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects | 10 | |
| 8122441355 | language families | collection of languages related through a common ancestral language | 11 | |
| 8122446516 | language | a symbolic system that is codified for communication | 12 | |
| 8122451757 | language replacement | language shift, sometimes referred to as language transfer to assimillation | 13 | |
| 8122463255 | lingua franca | a common language used by people who do not share the same native language | 14 | |
| 8122469307 | linguistic refuge areas | an area that has ruggd hills or mountains, execessively cold or dry climates. Helps isolate them from outside language influences and/or conquerors | 15 | |
| 8122480310 | monoglot | knowing only one language | 16 | |
| 8122483729 | monolingual states | countries in which only one language is spoken | 17 | |
| 8122487686 | multilingual states | countries in which more than one language is spoken | 18 | |
| 8122487687 | official language | the required language of instruction in schools, government business, courts, etc | 19 | |
| 8122492312 | pidgin language | When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary | 20 | |
| 8122494306 | polyglot | a person who speaks more than one language | 21 | |
| 8122498584 | renefrew hypothesis | hypothesis that proposes that three areas in and near first agricultural hearth, the fertile cresent | 22 | |
| 8122507117 | reverse reconstruction | process of tracing a language diffusion. the process begins with the most recent places of the languages existence and moves backword through time | 23 | |
| 8122524073 | shatterbelt | a zone of great cultural complexity containing many small cultural groups who speak diverse languages (himalayans) | 24 | |
| 8138667285 | standard language | a language substatially uniform with respect to spelling, grammar, pronunciation and vocab | 25 | |
| 8138669477 | toponym | a place name | 26 | |
| 8138669478 | language group | a collection of languages within a branch/subfamily that share a common origin in the relatively recent past | 27 | |
| 8138671592 | linguist | scientist who studies language | 28 |
