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| 8384072259 | accent | manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world | 0 | |
| 8384213077 | Anatolian Hyopthesis | theory that explains spread of language into Europe and middle east by farmers from Turkey. 6000BC. | 1 | |
| 8384224908 | creole | any native + colonizer language mixed together | 2 | |
| 8384259735 | dialect | regional variation of a lanuage | 3 | |
| 8384263398 | extinct language | former language that has no more alive speakers | 4 | |
| 8384290329 | ideogram | written symbol that represents an idea (without indicating sounds to say it) | 5 | |
| 8384305726 | Indo-European | the largest language family, has 4 bracnhes: Romance Indo-Iranian Germanic Balto-Slavic | 6 | |
| 8384351916 | Nostratic Hypothesis | theory that proposed a language family that includes Indo-European, Uralic, Semitic, Dravidian, and Kartvelian (not supported by most linguists) | 7 | |
| 8384377532 | isogloss | dialect's geographical boundary | 8 | |
| 8384386674 | isolated language | language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. (japanese, korean) | 9 | |
| 8384415285 | Kurgan Hypothesis | theory that explains the spread of language from southeastern horse-riding russians into the middle east and europe. 4000BC. | 10 | |
| 8384432582 | language | communication system using speech/gestures | 11 | |
| 8384446641 | language branch | collection of languages related through a common ancestor (family) | 12 | |
| 8384470191 | language family | collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 13 | |
| 8384497025 | language group | collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocab | 14 | |
| 8384500500 | lingua franca | language in common used between 2 groups to communicate. | 15 | |
| 8384538771 | linguicism | dislike of a language / people who speak that language | 16 | |
| 8384542620 | linguicide | act of killing off a language | 17 | |
| 8384547636 | literary tradition | language that is written as well as spoken | 18 | |
| 8384593843 | monolinguality | one language is spoken fluently | 19 | |
| 8384593844 | bilinguality | two langues are spoken fluently | 20 | |
| 8384581299 | multilinguality | common use of two or more languages in a society or country | 21 | |
| 8384634242 | national language | most common language used in a nation | 22 | |
| 8384702091 | official language | language that is declared by the government | 23 | |
| 8384759989 | orthography | art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage | 24 | |
| 8384783414 | pidgin | simplified language form | 25 | |
| 8384795507 | polyglot | person who speaks more than one language | 26 | |
| 8384813516 | slang | localized informal language (colloquialism) | 27 | |
| 8384823651 | standard language | approved dialect of a language | 28 | |
| 8384838932 | syntax | manner in which words are arranged into sentences. | 29 | |
| 8384866110 | toponym | a place's name | 30 | |
| 8384922605 | trade language | language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other. | 31 | |
| 8384932682 | vernacular | language or dialect spoken by the common people of a region | 32 | |
| 8384968025 | vocabulary | words/way of writing found in a particular language | 33 |
