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8428361979AccentA distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.0
8428361980DialectA particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group.1
8428361982Extinct LanguageAn extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use.2
8428361983IdeogramA written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six)3
8428361984IsoglossA geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs.4
8428361985Isolated Languagea 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
8428361986Language BranchA Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family.6
8428361987LanguageThe method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.7
8428361988Language GroupA 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
8428361989Language FamilyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history9
8428361990Indo European language familyLargest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia.10
8428361991Sino-Tibetan Language Family2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese11
8428361992Lingua FrancaA Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages12
8428361993Literary TraditionA Language that is written as well as spoken13
8428361994MonolingualThe condition of being able to speak only a single language14
8428361995BilingualThe ability to speak two languages15
8428361996MultilingualThe ability to speak multiple languages16
8428361997Official LanguageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.17
8428361998OrthographyThe conventional spelling system of a language.18
8428361999Pidgin LanguageA Form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.19
8428362000Standard LanguageThe form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.20
8428362001Toponyma place name or a word derived from the name of a place21
8428362003VernacularUsing 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.22
8428362004Creolea mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage23
8428362005DenglishThe 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.24
8428362006Franglaisa form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English.25
8428362007EbonicsAmerican black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English26
8428362008Spanglisha hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions.27

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