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5439290273AccentThe manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world0
5439290274Anatolian hypothesisThe proto-Indo-European language peacefully spread through the innovation of agriculture1
5439290275CreoleA language that results from the mixing of colonizers language with the indigenous language of people being dominated2
5439290276DialectA regional variety of a language, distinguished by vocabulary spelling an pronunciation3
5439290277Extinct languageA language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used4
5439290278IdeogramThe systems of writing used in China an other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or symbol rather than a sound as is the case with letters in englicy5
5439290280IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different languages sage predominate6
5439290281Isolated languageA language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family7
5439290282Kurgan hypothesisThe Proto-indo-European language diffused from modern day Ukrainian though conquest8
5439290283LanguageA system of communications through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have a meaning9
5439290284Language branchA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago10
5439290285Language familyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history11
5439290286Language groupA collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relativity recent past and display relativity few differences in grammar and vocab12
5439290287Lingua FrancaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native language13
5439290288Literary traditionA language that is written as well as spoken14
5439290289Mono-, bi-, multi-lingualityAmount of languages a person can speak15
5439290290National languageMost common language used in the nation language with the widest distribution and speakers16
5439290291Official languageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents17
5439290292OrthographyThe study of where languages are located18
5439290293PidginA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua Franca used for communications among speaking of two different language19
5439290294PolyglotA speaker of many languages20
5439290295SlangA kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of short lived comings and figures ofnspeech21
5439290296Standard languageThe form of a language used for official government business, education and mass communication22
5439290297SyntaxArrangement of words in Phrases and23
5439290298ToponymThe name by which a geographical place is known24
5439290299Trade languageA language used between native speakers and speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate with each other so they can trade25
5439290300VernacularThe everyday speech of the people as distinguished from literary language26
5439290301VocabularyThe body of words used in a particular language27

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