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5926566655Accent"French accent" the way someone speaks, may vary from place to place.0
5926567285Anatolian Hypothesisis that Anatolia is the hearth of all languages in the world.1
5926567286Creolecountry of Haiti French colony French/African Language2
5926567803Developing Languageis spoken in daily use by peole of all ages, from children to elderly individuals. HEBREW Hebrew dead language- Holocaust- Find home for Jews-Which was Israel-Chose the language Hebrew3
5926567804Dialectis a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.4
5926568851Extinct Languageis a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer in use.5
5926568852Ideogramsystem of writing used in china and other east asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a sound, as is the case for english6
5926568853Indo-Europeanis the most widely used language family, is the predominant one in Europe, South Asia, and North and Latin America. It has 8 branches.7
5926569419Isoglossthe distribution of boundaries of dialects that is documetned through the study of particualr words. Every word that is not used nationally has some geographic extent within the country and therefore has boundaries. Such a word-usage boundary, known as ISOGLOSS.8
5926569420Isolated Languageis a language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family. (JAPANESE)9
5926569764Languageis a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.10
5926569765Language Branchis a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousands of years ago; differences are not as extensive or as old between language families, and archaeolligical evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.11
5926570351Language Familyis a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.12
5926570352Language Groupis a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the realatively recent past and display many similarites in grammar and vocabulary.13
5926571471Lingua franca/ Trade Languagea language of internation communication, such as English, is known as a Lingua Franca. Which facilitates trade.14
5926571472Literary Traditionmeans that it is written as well as spoken.15
5926572237logogramare symbols that represent words or meaningful parts of words.16
5926573184Mono-, bi-, multi-ligualityone, two, and many tonges. Speak many languages.17
5926573948National Languageofficial language18
5926574665Official or Institutional LanguageINSTITUTIONAL LANGUAGE: is used in education, work, mass media, and government. many countries designate at least one institutional Language as an OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: which is used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps.19
5926574666Orthographythe study of where languages are found/located20
5926575018Pidgina group that learns English or another lingua franca may learn a simplefied form, called a PIDGIN LANGUAGE. "surfer talk" .......shaka.......gnarly......brah21
5926575019PolyglotPeople who speak many languages.22
5926575729Received Pronunciationwas the dialect used by upper-class redsidents in the capital city of London. It is well known around the world as the dialect commonly used by politicians, broudcasters, and actors.23
5926575730Slangaltering the language.24
5926576159Splanglish/ FranglishFRANGLISH: is a mix of French and English. SPANGLISH: is a mix of Spanish and English.25
5926576160Standard Languageis a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable of government, business, education, and mass communication.26
5926576935Sub Dialectis a subdivision of a dialect.27
5926576936SyntaxThe manner in which words are arranged into sentences.28
5926577786Toponymname of a place.29
5926577787Vernaculara language or dialect spoken by the common people of a region30
5926578060VocabularyWords used to describe new experiences, ideas, and feelings.31
5926580203Vulgar Latinform of latin used in daily convo by ancient romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.32

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