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| 5665219484 | British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | the dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom | 0 | |
| 5665229328 | creole/creolized language | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 1 | |
| 5665239855 | Denglish | combination of German and English | 2 | |
| 5665242630 | dialect | a regional variety of language distinguished by language, spelling, and pronunciation | 3 | |
| 5665244839 | Ebonics | dialect spoken by some African Americans | 4 | |
| 5665253129 | extinct language | a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used | 5 | |
| 5665255813 | Franglais | a term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language; a combination of français and anglais, the the French words for "French" and "English" | 6 | |
| 5665267006 | ideograms | the system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound | 7 | |
| 5665275430 | isogloss | a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | 8 | |
| 5665279523 | isolated language | a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not connected to any language family (i.e. Basque) | 9 | |
| 5665289973 | language | a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning | 10 | |
| 5665295378 | language branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago; differences between languages are not quite extensive or old | 11 | |
| 5665306057 | language family | collection of languages related through common ancestor long before recorded history | 12 | |
| 5665311832 | 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 vocabulary | 13 | |
| 5665322959 | linga franca | a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 14 | |
| 5665327069 | literary tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken | 15 | |
| 5665331386 | official language | the language adopted for used by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 16 | |
| 5665335455 | 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 | 17 | |
| 5665345598 | Spanglish | combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans | 18 | |
| 5665350242 | standard language | the form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications | 19 | |
| 5665357190 | 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 | 20 |
