Language
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| 8264076828 | Monolingual | The condition of being able to speak only a single language |  | 0 |
| 8264076815 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. |  | 1 |
| 8264076816 | Extinct Language | a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. |  | 2 |
| 8264076817 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) |  | 3 |
| 8264076818 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary that separates regions where different dialects occur |  | 4 |
| 8264076819 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language. |  | 5 |
| 8264076820 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. |  | 6 |
| 8264076821 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. |  | 7 |
| 8264076822 | 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. |  | 8 |
| 8264076823 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |  | 9 |
| 8264076824 | Indo European language family | Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. |  | 10 |
| 8264076825 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese |  | 11 |
| 8264076826 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |  | 12 |
| 8264076827 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 13 | |
| 8264076829 | Bilingual | The ability to speak two languages |  | 14 |
| 8264076830 | Multilingual | The ability to speak multiple languages |  | 15 |
| 8264076831 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |  | 16 |
| 8264076832 | 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. |  | 17 |
| 8264076833 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |  | 18 |
| 8264076834 | Toponym | a place name or a word derived from the name of a place |  | 19 |
| 8264076835 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people. | 20 | |
| 8264076836 | Creole | results from mixing a colonizer's language with the indigenous language |  | 21 |
| 8264076837 | Denglish | The term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German. |  | 22 |
| 8264076838 | Indigenous language | a language that originates in a particular place, a native language |  | 23 |
| 8264076839 | Spanglish | a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions. |  | 24 |
| 8266977931 | Nomadic Warrior Hypothesis | Marija Gimbutas Hyp on how Indo-European came about; Kurgan People (Russia/Kazakhstan); nomadic herders; migrated in search of grassland for animals; took them to Europe, SIberia, and Iran and S Asia, used horses as weapons to conquer | 25 | |
| 8267029477 | Language convergence | two or more languages blend into one due to consistent interaction | 26 | |
| 8267055999 | Language divergence | a language breaks into other languages due to lack of interaction | 27 | |
| 8267070884 | Agricultural theory | theory of the diffusion of the Proto-Indo-European language into Europe through the innovation of agriculture . Its hearth is around modern day Anatolia (in modern day Turkey; same as Renfrew Hypothesis - Colin Renfrew | 28 | |
| 8267106247 | mutual intelligibility | being able to understand someone who has a different dialect | 29 | |
| 8267167823 | Acculturation | the adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society. It usually occurs when one society is controlled, either politically, economically, socially, or all of these, by another society. | 30 | |
| 8267261076 | Franglais | a form of French that borrows words from English | 31 | |
| 8267270918 | National language | the language spoken and written by the majority of people in a country; also, the official language of a country, recognized and adopted by its government | 32 |
