Language
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| 8068212379 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. |  | 0 |
| 8068212380 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. |  | 1 |
| 8068212382 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. |  | 2 |
| 8068212384 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. |  | 3 |
| 8068212385 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. |  | 4 |
| 8068212386 | 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. |  | 5 |
| 8068212387 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |  | 6 |
| 8068212388 | 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. |  | 7 |
| 8068212389 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese |  | 8 |
| 8068212390 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |  | 9 |
| 8068212395 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |  | 10 |
| 8068212396 | 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. |  | 11 |
| 8068212397 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |  | 12 |
| 8068212398 | Trade Language | A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade. |  | 13 |
| 8068212400 | Creole | a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage |  | 14 |
| 8068212406 | Developing Language | Language used daily for face-to-face communication, includes a standard written expression, | 15 | |
| 8068212410 | Theory regarding the origins of indo-European language is | Kurgan hearth in southern Russia | 16 | |
| 8068366856 | What is the spatial distribution of the Romance language branch of indo-European | Southwest Europe | 17 | |
| 8068366857 | Most commonly used sino-tibentan language | Mandrin | 18 | |
| 8068366858 | linguistic fragmentation | Many languages spoken by a small group of people. | 19 | |
| 8068366859 | Conquest theory | Kurgan warriors brought their language w them as they conquered other areas | 20 | |
| 8068366860 | #1 language family | Indo-European | 21 | |
| 8068366861 | #2 language family | Sino-Tibetan | 22 | |
| 8068366862 | language divergence | Spatial interactions between speakers breakdown causing new words to develop | 23 | |
| 8068366863 | language convergence | Two languages become one because of spatial interaction's | 24 | |
| 8068366864 | Differences in language | Grammar, writing direction, alphabet, allowable sounds | 25 |
