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| 5300112694 | language | a system of communication through speech; a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning | 0 | |
| 5300118138 | official language | the language used by the government for laws, reports, and public projects | 1 | |
| 5300124230 | literary tradition | a system of written communication | 2 | |
| 5300144271 | language family | a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history | 3 | |
| 5300146964 | language branch | a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago | 4 | |
| 5300155720 | language group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary | 5 | |
| 5300165458 | logograms | symbols that represent words, or meaningful parts of words, rather than sounds | 6 | |
| 5300180769 | Indo-European | most widely used language family; Europe, South Asia, North and Latin America | 7 | |
| 5300184890 | SIno-Tibetan | People's Republic of China | 8 | |
| 5300190791 | Mandarin | Most used language in the world | 9 | |
| 5300198443 | Austronesian | 6% of world; Indonesia | 10 | |
| 5300200726 | Austro-Asiatic | 2% of world; Southeast Asia, Vietnamese is most common | 11 | |
| 5312388841 | Tai Kadai | Once a branch of Sino-Tibetan; spoken in Thailand and neighboring parts of China | 12 | |
| 5312397974 | Japanese | Similar to Chinese logograms; two systems of phonetic symbols | 13 | |
| 5312409554 | Korean | Written with hankul, a system of symbols that represents sounds | 14 | |
| 5312416134 | Afro-Asiatic | Spoken in two dozen Southwest Asia and North African countries | 15 | |
| 5312443968 | Altaic | Spoken in newly independent countries: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan; spoken mostly in Turkey | 16 | |
| 5312681233 | Uralic | Estonia, Finland, Hungary | 17 | |
| 5312682672 | Niger-Congo | Over 95% of sub-Saharan Africa | 18 | |
| 5312684704 | Nilo-Saharan | North-central Africa; Divided into six branches | 19 | |
| 5312689919 | Khoisan | Whites in Southern-Africa; Hottentot is most important language | 20 | |
| 5435903598 | Dialect | a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | 21 | |
| 5435943183 | From who did dialects in the U.S. originate? | colonists | 22 | |
| 5435965933 | What are the eastern dialect regions? | New England, Southeastern, and Midlands. | 23 | |
| 5436003598 | Why did certain English dialects diffuse? | Westward movement of colonists from the three East Coast dialect regions | 24 | |
| 5441310003 | Where do most Spanish and Portuguese speakers live? | Outside of Europe | 25 | |
| 5441313402 | Galician | Debated on if it is a Portuguese dialect or an official language. | 26 | |
| 5441315372 | Moldovan | Dialect of Romanian; official language of Moldova | 27 | |
| 5441317046 | creole | a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language and indigenous language | 28 | |
| 5441320745 | Belgium | Split into Walloons and Flemish; many want to split into two countries | 29 | |
| 5441321648 | Swizterland | Exists peacefully with many different languages | 30 | |
| 5441329394 | Nigeria | 527 distinct languages | 31 | |
| 5441331323 | Isolated language | a language unrelated to any other language: Basque | 32 | |
| 5441357819 | Extinct language | a language that is not longer used but was used in the past: Gothic | 33 |
