| 8083652821 | British Received Pronunciation | the instantly recognisable accent often described as 'typically British'. | 0 | |
| 8083656684 | Creole Language | a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages | 1 | |
| 8083659380 | Denglish | used to refer to incorrect English that is influenced by German. | 2 | |
| 8083662613 | Dialect | a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. | 3 | |
| 8083666652 | Ebonics | American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English. | 4 | |
| 8083672351 | Franglais | a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English. | 5 | |
| 8083672352 | Ideograms | a written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters. | 6 | |
| 8083678561 | Isogloss | a line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features. | 7 | |
| 8083682315 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages | 8 | |
| 8083684247 | Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | 9 | |
| 8083688531 | Language Extinction | A language dying off | 10 | |
| 8083690400 | Language Family | a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language | 11 | |
| 8083700279 | Language Group | a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language | 12 | |
| 8083700280 | Linguica Franca | a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different. | 13 | |
| 8083703919 | Literacy | the ability to read and write | 14 | |
| 8083707930 | Pidgin | a grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language | 15 | |
| 8083710443 | Polyglot | knowing or using several languages. | 16 | |
| 8083712088 | Romance Languages | the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that thus form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family | 17 | |
| 8083712089 | Spanglish | a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions. | 18 | |
| 8083717593 | Vulgar Latin | informal Latin of classical times | 19 |
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