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| 8238155744 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 0 | |
| 8238168382 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 1 | |
| 8238175425 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | 2 | |
| 8238717959 | Creole Language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | 3 | |
| 8238724805 | Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people but is no longer used. | 4 | |
| 8238732840 | Lingua Franca | A language that is mutually understood by two people, but isn't their main language. Ex. A Frenchman and an Englishman both know Spanish and are able to communicate using Spanish despite it not being their first language. | 5 | |
| 8238788830 | Pidgin Language | A form of speech that takes a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca. It's used for communications between speakers of two different languages. | 6 | |
| 8238800681 | Language Branch | A collection of languages that are related through a common ancestor that existed thousands of years ago. The differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches came from the same family. | 7 | |
| 8238850627 | Dialect | a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. | 8 | |
| 8238936225 | Standard Language | The form of language that is used for all government business and trade. | 9 |
