5626234248 | Creole | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | ![]() | 0 |
5626234249 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | ![]() | 1 |
5626234250 | Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African Americans. | ![]() | 2 |
5626234251 | Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | ![]() | 3 |
5626234252 | Franglais | A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language | ![]() | 4 |
5626234253 | 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. | ![]() | 5 |
5626234254 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | ![]() | 6 |
5626234255 | Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family | ![]() | 7 |
5626234256 | 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. | ![]() | 8 |
5626234257 | Language Branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | ![]() | 9 |
5626234258 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | ![]() | 10 |
5626234259 | 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. | ![]() | 11 |
5626234260 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | ![]() | 12 |
5626234261 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken | ![]() | 13 |
5626234262 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | ![]() | 14 |
5626234263 | 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. | ![]() | 15 |
5626234264 | Spanglish | Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans. | ![]() | 16 |
5626234265 | Standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | ![]() | 17 |
5626234266 | 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. | ![]() | 18 |
5626234267 | hierarchical diffusion | A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. | ![]() | 19 |
5626234268 | Most numerous language speakers on earth: | Mandarin Chinese speakers | ![]() | 20 |
5626234269 | Second most numerous speakers on earth: | Spanish speakers | ![]() | 21 |
5626234270 | Third most numerous speakers on earth: | English speakers | ![]() | 22 |
5626234271 | Fourth most numerous speakers on earth: | Arabic speakers | ![]() | 23 |
5626234272 | Fifth most numerous speakers on earth: | Hindi speakers | ![]() | 24 |
5626234273 | Accent | A way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker. | ![]() | 25 |
5626234274 | Esperanto | A made-up Latin-based language, which its European proponents in the early twentieth century hoped would become a global language | ![]() | 26 |
5626234275 | Orthography | The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage. | ![]() | 27 |
5626234276 | Pidgin | when two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary | ![]() | 28 |
5626234277 | Trade Language | A language used by speakers of a different native language for communication in commercial trade | ![]() | 29 |
5626234278 | Vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people | ![]() | 30 |
5626234279 | Bilingual | Able to speak two languages | ![]() | 31 |
5626234280 | Multilingual | able to speak several languages | ![]() | 32 |
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