5926566655 | Accent | "French accent" the way someone speaks, may vary from place to place. | 0 | |
5926567285 | Anatolian Hypothesis | is that Anatolia is the hearth of all languages in the world. | 1 | |
5926567286 | Creole | country of Haiti French colony French/African Language | 2 | |
5926567803 | Developing Language | is 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 Hebrew | 3 | |
5926567804 | Dialect | is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 4 | |
5926568851 | Extinct Language | is a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer in use. | 5 | |
5926568852 | Ideogram | system 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 english | 6 | |
5926568853 | Indo-European | is the most widely used language family, is the predominant one in Europe, South Asia, and North and Latin America. It has 8 branches. | 7 | |
5926569419 | Isogloss | the 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 | |
5926569420 | Isolated Language | is a language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family. (JAPANESE) | 9 | |
5926569764 | Language | is a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning. | 10 | |
5926569765 | Language Branch | is 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 | |
5926570351 | Language Family | is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history. | 12 | |
5926570352 | Language Group | is 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 | |
5926571471 | Lingua franca/ Trade Language | a language of internation communication, such as English, is known as a Lingua Franca. Which facilitates trade. | 14 | |
5926571472 | Literary Tradition | means that it is written as well as spoken. | 15 | |
5926572237 | logogram | are symbols that represent words or meaningful parts of words. | 16 | |
5926573184 | Mono-, bi-, multi-liguality | one, two, and many tonges. Speak many languages. | 17 | |
5926573948 | National Language | official language | 18 | |
5926574665 | Official or Institutional Language | INSTITUTIONAL 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 | |
5926574666 | Orthography | the study of where languages are found/located | 20 | |
5926575018 | Pidgin | a group that learns English or another lingua franca may learn a simplefied form, called a PIDGIN LANGUAGE. "surfer talk" .......shaka.......gnarly......brah | 21 | |
5926575019 | Polyglot | People who speak many languages. | 22 | |
5926575729 | Received Pronunciation | was 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 | |
5926575730 | Slang | altering the language. | 24 | |
5926576159 | Splanglish/ Franglish | FRANGLISH: is a mix of French and English. SPANGLISH: is a mix of Spanish and English. | 25 | |
5926576160 | Standard Language | is a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable of government, business, education, and mass communication. | 26 | |
5926576935 | Sub Dialect | is a subdivision of a dialect. | 27 | |
5926576936 | Syntax | The manner in which words are arranged into sentences. | 28 | |
5926577786 | Toponym | name of a place. | 29 | |
5926577787 | Vernacular | a language or dialect spoken by the common people of a region | 30 | |
5926578060 | Vocabulary | Words used to describe new experiences, ideas, and feelings. | 31 | |
5926580203 | Vulgar Latin | form 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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