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| 13962879654 | About how many languages are there? | 7,102 | 0 | |
| 13962882363 | How many are institutional? | 578 | 1 | |
| 13962883550 | How many are developing? | 1,598 | 2 | |
| 13962885303 | How many are vigorous? | 2,479 | 3 | |
| 13962886760 | How many are in trouble? | 1,531 | 4 | |
| 13962888000 | How many are dying? ` | 916 | 5 | |
| 13962889562 | Institutional langauge | used in education, work, mass media, and gov't | 6 | |
| 13962892539 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 7 | |
| 13962909718 | Literary language | written as well as spoken | 8 | |
| 13962951196 | Developing langauge | spoken in daily use with a literary tradition | 9 | |
| 13962955915 | Vigorous language | a language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition | 10 | |
| 13962959054 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 11 | |
| 13962963051 | 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. | 12 | |
| 13962965221 | 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 | |
| 13962972224 | Which language family is the most widely used? | Indo-European | 14 | |
| 13962974816 | Indo-European is predominant where? | Europe, South Asia and North and Latin America | 15 | |
| 13963611365 | What are the four most widely used branches of Indo-European? | Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic | 16 | |
| 13968457567 | The languages of China generally belong to which branch? | Sinitic | 17 | |
| 13968464311 | Sinitic belongs to which family? | Sino-Tibetan | 18 | |
| 13968472129 | The most commonly used Chinese language is what? | Mandarin | 19 | |
| 13968474953 | Mandarin is now the official language of which two places? | People's Republic of China and Taiwan | 20 | |
| 13968629308 | Austronesian is spoken by what percent of people? | 6% | 21 | |
| 13968726485 | What are the three largest language families of Southeast Asia? | Austronesian, Austro-Asiatic, Tai-Kadai | 22 | |
| 13968867445 | Indonesia's most widely used language is what? | Javanese | 23 | |
| 13968875889 | What percent of the population speaks Austro-Asiatic? | 2% | 24 | |
| 13968882112 | What is the most spoken Austro-Asiatic language? | Vietnamese | 25 | |
| 13968890381 | The two most-widely used language families outside of China are? | Japanese and Korean | 26 | |
| 13968904762 | Dravidian in the principle language family of ______________? | South Asia | 27 | |
| 13968910786 | Southern India's principle languages are what? | Dravidian | 28 | |
| 13968916535 | Turkish is the most spoken language of what family? | Altaic | 29 | |
| 13968924383 | Countries that have Altaic languages are_______. | Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan | 30 | |
| 13968938337 | Migrants carries the Uralic language to where? | Europe | 31 | |
| 13968961618 | Hugarians speak what language family? | Uralic | 32 | |
| 13968970461 | The 3rd and 4th largest language families are based where? | Africa | 33 | |
| 13968974132 | What are the 3rd and 4th largest language families? | Afro-Asiatic and Niger-Congo | 34 | |
| 13969213041 | How many people speak and write the language of Arabic? | 206 million | 35 | |
| 13969226510 | Other than Indo-European, what is the most widely used language family in the Western Hemisphere? | Quechuan | 36 | |
| 13969236382 | About how many people speak a Quechuan language? | 9 million people | 37 | |
| 13969253164 | The Nilo-Saharan family is divided into how many branches? | 6 | 38 | |
| 13969264177 | Which branch does English belong to? | Germanic | 39 | |
| 13969528370 | The four most commonly used Romance languages are? | Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian | 40 | |
| 13969541207 | The Indo-European branch with the most speakers is? | Indo-Iranian | 41 | |
| 13969604743 | Logograms | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound | 42 | |
| 13969610719 | In how many countires is English an official language? | 58 | 43 | |
| 13969613671 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 44 | |
| 13969695479 | Standard Language | a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication | 45 | |
| 13969700085 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | 46 | |
| 13969705052 | Creole language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | 47 | |
| 13969715018 | Isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. | 48 | |
| 13969717698 | Extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 49 |
