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| 4057459531 | official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 0 | |
| 4057459532 | dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 1 | |
| 4057460572 | standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 2 | |
| 4057460573 | isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | 3 | |
| 4057460574 | language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 4 | |
| 4057461594 | 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. | 5 | |
| 4057461595 | creole language | A language that results from the mixing of a language that results form the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | 6 | |
| 4057462479 | extinct languages | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 7 | |
| 4057462480 | lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. | 8 | |
| 4057463729 | 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. | 9 | |
| 4057484835 | placelessness | Defined by geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next. Different cultural landscapes become similar to one another and have nothing to differentiate them. | 10 |
