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| 5570843183 | Creole | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. |  | 0 |
| 5570843184 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation |  | 1 |
| 5570843186 | Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. |  | 2 |
| 5570843187 | Franglais | A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language |  | 3 |
| 5570843188 | 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, as is the case with letters in English. |  | 4 |
| 5570843189 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. |  | 5 |
| 5570843190 | Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family |  | 6 |
| 5570843191 | 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. |  | 7 |
| 5570843192 | Language Branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago |  | 8 |
| 5570843193 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. |  | 9 |
| 5570843194 | Language Group | A 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. |  | 10 |
| 5570843195 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |  | 11 |
| 5570843196 | Literary tradition | The written aspect of language. |  | 12 |
| 5570843197 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |  | 13 |
| 5570843198 | 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 or more different languages. |  | 14 |
| 5570843199 | Spanglish | Combination of Spanish and English. |  | 15 |
| 5570843201 | 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. |  | 16 |
| 5570843202 | hierarchical diffusion | A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. |  | 17 |
| 5570843203 | Most numerous language speakers on earth: | Mandarin Chinese speakers |  | 18 |
| 5570843204 | Received Pronunciation | the standard form of British English pronunciation |  | 19 |
| 5570843205 | Second most numerous speakers on earth: | English speakers |  | 20 |
| 5570843208 | Accent | A way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker. |  | 21 |
| 5570843213 | Vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people |  | 22 |
| 5570843214 | Bilingual | Able to speak two languages |  | 23 |
| 5570843215 | Multilingual | able to speak several languages |  | 24 |
| 9214826406 | swahili | Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken, lingua franca in coastal regions of East Africa. | 25 | |
| 9214830414 | AAVE | a dialect of English commonly used by African Americans | 26 | |
| 9214838328 | Sino-Tibetan | language family Mandarin is a part of | 27 | |
| 9214839613 | Indo-European | language family English, Hindi, Bengali, and Spanish are a part of | 28 | |
| 9214854705 | Kurgan Theory | AKA nomadic warrior, hypothesis on the diffusion of Indo-European languages | 29 | |
| 9214870067 | Anatolian Theory | AKA sedentary farmer, hypothesis on the diffusion of Indo-European languages | 30 |
