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| 5520010580 | Accent | A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, esp. one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. | 0 | |
| 5520010581 | Anatolian Theory/Sedentary Farmer Theory by Colin Renfrew | Renfrew (archaeologist) argues that the first speakers of the Indo-European language lived 2,000 years before the Kurgans in eastern Anatolia, part of present-day Turkey. The people were farmers and diffused from Anatolia westward to Greece and Italy, Sicily, Corsica, and to the Mediterranean coast of France, Spain, and Portugal. The speakers migrated northward to France and into the British Isles. The Indo-European speakers diffused into Europe and South Asia along with agricultural practices rather than by military conquest. | 1 | |
| 5520010582 | Kurgan Theory by Marijah Gimbutus | She (Lithuanian-American archaeologists) believed that the first Indo-European speakers were the Kurgan people whose homeland was near the border between present-day Russia and Kazakhstan. This would be about 4300 BC. The Kurgans were nomadic herders. Among the first to domesticate horses and cattle, they migrated in search of grasslands for their animals. This took them westward through Europe, eastward to Siberia, and southeastward to Iran and South Asia. Between 3500 and 2500 BC, Kurgan warriors using their domesticated horses as weapons, conquered much of Europe and South Asia. They spread their language with warriors and their horses as weapons. | 2 | |
| 5520010583 | Bi-lingual | Speaking two languages | 3 | |
| 5520010584 | Mono-lingual | Speaking one language | 4 | |
| 5520010585 | Multi-linguality | Speaking more than two languages | 5 | |
| 5520010586 | Syncretism | When cultural traits emerge as a cultural hybrid of two distinct parent traits. Ex- SE Asia uses curry-based flavors. Chinese use soy-based flavors. Thailand uses both flavors in their cuisine or cooking. Another example- syncretism occurs such as the fusion of African religion with Catholicism in Brazil. Another ex- Mexican taco changes when it becomes a menu item in the USA. Even Chinese chow mein will experience syncretism and taste differently in the chow neon served at restaraunts in the USA and Canada | 6 | |
| 5520010587 | Toponym | The name given to a portion of Earth's surface | 7 | |
| 5520010588 | British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom | 8 | |
| 5520010589 | Creole or creolized labguage | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language of the people being dominated | 9 | |
| 5520010590 | Denglish | Combination of German and english | 10 | |
| 5520010591 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | 11 | |
| 5520010592 | Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African Americans | 12 | |
| 5520010593 | Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used | 13 | |
| 5520010594 | Franglais | A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language; a combination of francais and anglais, the French words for French and English, respectively | 14 | |
| 5520010595 | Ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in english | 15 | |
| 5520010596 | Isogloss | A boundary that separated regions in which different language usages predominate | 16 | |
| 5520010597 | Isolated labguage | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language families | 17 | |
| 5520010598 | 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 | 18 | |
| 5520010599 | Language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family. | 19 | |
| 5520010600 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 20 | |
| 5520010601 | Language group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary | 21 | |
| 5520010602 | Lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. | 22 | |
| 5520010603 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken | 23 | |
| 5520010604 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 24 | |
| 5520010605 | 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 | 25 | |
| 5520010606 | Spanglish | Combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans | 26 | |
| 5520010607 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications | 27 | |
| 5520010608 | 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. | 28 |
