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| 8720170961 | Afro Asiatic | Language family of Arabic & Hebrew | 0 | |
| 8720174214 | Agriculture Theory | Claims that the origin of Indo - European is Anatolia | 1 | |
| 8720179763 | Lingua Franca | Language used to communicate quickly & efficiently; often for trade | 2 | |
| 8720193969 | Acculturation | The adoption of cultural traits like language by 1 group under the influence of another | 3 | |
| 8720200836 | Dialect | specific variations of a language | 4 | |
| 8720204449 | Conquest Theory | claims that the origin of indo - european is north of Black Sea | 5 | |
| 8720212344 | language branch | sub level of a language family ex: Germanic branch of indo european family | 6 | |
| 8720233609 | language family | collection of many languages coming from the same original tongue ex: indo european family | 7 | |
| 8720245559 | language | a system of communication through the use of speech, signs, gestures, marks, or vocal sounds | 8 | |
| 8720254930 | Received Pronunciation | the acceptable form of a given language by political or societal leaders | 9 | |
| 8720269212 | Hindi | the most widely spoken language in India; not an official language of the UN | 10 | |
| 8720277074 | 10 Most Widely Spoken Languages (in order) | Chinese Spanish English Hindi Arabic Portugese Bengali Russian Japanese Punjabi/Lahnda | 11 | |
| 8720292696 | Isolated Language | a language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family ex: Basque, Korean, Burushaski, Icelandic | 12 | |
| 8720308717 | Hybrid Language | Franglais, Denglish | 13 | |
| 8720314853 | Revived Language | Inukitut, Irish Gaelic | 14 | |
| 8720329165 | Extinct Language | Hieroglyphics, Gothic | 15 | |
| 8720332348 | Altaic Language Family | Azerbaijani, Turkish | 16 | |
| 8720339817 | Niger Congo Language Family | Igbo, Yoruba | 17 | |
| 8720343163 | Austronesian Language Family | Malay, Javanese | 18 | |
| 8720347365 | Dravidian Language Family | Tamil, Telugu | 19 | |
| 8720354525 | Africa | most linguistically diverse continent | 20 | |
| 8720358477 | Canada | Bilingual country | 21 | |
| 8720361838 | Nigeria | multilingual country | 22 | |
| 8720373564 | North Africa | languages are most likely part of Afro Asiatic family | 23 | |
| 8720381150 | Southeast Asia | languages are most likely part of Sino - Tibetan family | 24 | |
| 8720388331 | Belgium language conflict | Dutch in the north, French in the south has contributed to a lack of national unity | 25 | |
| 8720398700 | Galicians, Catalonians, Basques | ethnic groups within Spain seeking their own independent state | 26 | |
| 8720409914 | Latin based romance languages | Spanish, French, Romaninan, Portugese, Spanish | 27 | |
| 8720415216 | Anglo Saxon German | greatest impact on development of English language | 28 | |
| 8720419697 | Arabic | spread globally as a result of the diffusion of religion | 29 | |
| 8720426423 | Isogloss | a boundary between language zones | 30 | |
| 8720430198 | Official Languages | are used by the governments for use in its daily business | 31 | |
| 8720433493 | Chinese | written ideographically | 32 | |
| 8720441057 | Language extinction | increased because of globalization, colonialism. its rates are accerlerating; language revival has been a reaction to the increasing rate of extinction | 33 | |
| 8720460731 | Pidgin Languages | Limited vocab, nobody's 1st language, few if any grammar rules, a simplified language based on 2 seperate languages | 34 | |
| 8720520669 | Creole Language | is a pidgin language that evolved to become a group's 1st language | 35 | |
| 8720537933 | A problem with ideographic writing systems is | to be literate, a person must memorize thousands of symbols | 36 | |
| 8720542791 | Abjads | arabic & hebrew | 37 | |
| 8720546047 | Alphabets | Sets of letters latin, cyrilic, greek | 38 | |
| 8720551309 | abugidas | writing system in which the main element is the syllable ex: Hindi, Thai, Nepalese | 39 | |
| 8720569725 | Language Divergence | latin language diffused throughout the roman empire & evolved into 20 different distinct languages | 40 | |
| 8720583516 | UN official languages | Arabic, chinese, english, french, russian, spanish | 41 | |
| 8720594309 | Patois | any nonstandard language or dialect ex: former colonies blending indigenous w/ colonizers | 42 | |
| 8720600947 | Linguistic regions | region of the world where a specific language is spoken (formal regions) | 43 | |
| 8720620992 | Language Replacement | the main threat to language groups is when another language through conquest, colonialism, globalization, etc replaces the language leading to endangerment or even extinction | 44 | |
| 8720610694 | Noah Webster | created 1st American dictionary in 1806 | 45 |
