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| 9334959032 | Creole language | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 0 | |
| 9334967904 | Denglish | A combination of Deutsche and English | 1 | |
| 9334973796 | Developing language | A language spoken in daily use with a literary traditions that is not widely distributed | 2 | |
| 9334985550 | Dialect | A regional variety of language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 3 | |
| 9335011767 | Ebonics | A dialect spoken by some African Americans | 4 | |
| 9335015604 | Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 5 | |
| 9335026356 | Franglias | A combination of French and English | 6 | |
| 9335029921 | Institutional Language | A language used in education, work, mass media, and government | 7 | |
| 9335033805 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different languages and therefor not attached to any language | 8 | |
| 9335041522 | Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. | 9 | |
| 9335051730 | 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. | 10 | |
| 9335059326 | Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence | 11 | |
| 9335066811 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 12 | |
| 9335071008 | 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 | 13 | |
| 9335093195 | Lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 14 | |
| 9335112845 | Literary tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken | 15 | |
| 9335120138 | Logogram | a symbol that represents a word rather than a sound | 16 | |
| 9335125065 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 17 | |
| 9335129766 | Pidgin Langauge | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for for communications among speakers of two different languages | 18 | |
| 9335142998 | Received Pronunciation | Dialect of English Associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom | 19 | |
| 9335153426 | Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans | 20 | |
| 9335158594 | Standard language | The form of language used for official government business, education, and mass communication. | 21 | |
| 9335167704 | Subdialect | A subdivision of dialect | 22 | |
| 9335167705 | Vigorous langauge | A language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition | 23 | |
| 9335171677 | 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. | 24 |
