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8083652821British Received Pronunciationthe instantly recognisable accent often described as 'typically British'.0
8083656684Creole Languagea stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages1
8083659380Denglishused to refer to incorrect English that is influenced by German.2
8083662613Dialecta particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.3
8083666652EbonicsAmerican black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English.4
8083672351Franglaisa form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English.5
8083672352Ideogramsa written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters.6
8083678561Isoglossa line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features.7
8083682315Isolated Languagea natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages8
8083684247Language BranchA collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago9
8083688531Language ExtinctionA language dying off10
8083690400Language Familya group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language11
8083700279Language Groupa group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language12
8083700280Linguica Francaa language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.13
8083703919Literacythe ability to read and write14
8083707930Pidgina grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language15
8083710443Polyglotknowing or using several languages.16
8083712088Romance Languagesthe 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 family17
8083712089Spanglisha hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions.18
8083717593Vulgar Latininformal Latin of classical times19

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