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5183898364languagesystem of communication through speech0
5183898758dialectlanguage distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and population1
5183899612ideogramseach symbol represents an idea or concept2
5183900629ebonicsdialect spoken by some african americans3
5183901395literacy traditionlanguage that is written as well as spoken4
5183902875isoglossboundary tha separates regions in which different language usages predominate5
5183907497lingua francacommon language used in trade6
5183910744official languagelanguage adopted by government for publication of documents7
5183912499British received pronunciationproper version of english spoken by upper-class britons in London8
5183918476isolated languagelanguage not related to or attached to any other language family9
5183919952creolized languagecreated by mixing colonizers language with indigenous language10
5183923258extinct languagelanguage once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used11
5183924400gothicexample of extinct language12
5183925038revived languagelanguage that has almost become extinct but has been revived and regained it status13
5183926637hebrewexample of revived language14
5183956817preserved languagepreventing a language from becoming extinct, survival depends on political and military strength15
5183959316basque, Icelandicexamples of isolated language16
5183960237franglaiswidespread use of english in the french language, combination of french and english17
5183964566spanglishcombination of english and Spanish18
5183965987denglishthe diffusion of english words into german, combination of german and english19
5183969503Angles, Jutes, Saxons, and normanthe four tribes that invaded England and blended with celtic people to develop english language20
5183972093colonization, migrationwhy is english distributed around the world21
5183985770English, German, Flemish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandicgermanic languages22
5184011424Nomadic Warrior theoryother name for kurgan theory23
5184012353Marija Gimbuteswho developed kurgan theory24
5184017061nomadic herders spread from caspian sea into europe and middle east looking to conquer landwhat does kurgan theory say25
5184019314farmers theory, sedentary farmers theory, agricultural theoryother names for anatolian theory26
5184020256colin Renfrewwho developed anatalian theory27
5184025347agricultural farmers spread from turkey to europe and asia, believed agriculture spread languagewhat does anatolin theory say28
5184082353indic and iraniantwo groups of indo iranian29
5184083194hindi and urdumost spoken in indic group30
5184084172hindi and englishofficial language of india31
5184085843persian, pashto, kurdishmost spoken iranian languages32
5184087693india, pakistan, Bangladeshindic countries33
5184090571iran and neighboring southwest asia countriesiranian countries34
5184094190east, west, and southbalto-slovik sections35
5184097285russiandominant language in east slavic36
5184103798polish, czech, and slovacdominant languages in west slovak37
5184107921spanish, Portuguese, french, Italian, and romanceromance languages38
5184386853they have no written recordwhy is it hard to document some languages39
5184388036language familycollection of languages before recorded history40
5184390112language branchcollection of languages from thousands of years ago41
5184394610vulgar latinterm for latin spoken during the roman empire42
5184399679single ancestor language of indo-europeanwhat is implied by proto-indo-european43
5184402004indo-europeanmost widely spoken language family44
5184403843mandarinemost popular language in china45
5184407436473how many languages are considered nearly extinct46
5184409494east-germanic groupwhat language group did gothic belong to47
5184414203people who spoke it converted to another language because of political dominance and cultural preferencewhy did gothic become extinct48
5184422619to unify the people togetherwhy was hebrew chosen as the official language of Israel49
5184427306they had to make new word for objects and inventions not present during biblical timeswhy was reviving the hebrew language difficult50
5184433957its the language of international communicationwhy international people want to speak english51
5184437773migration and conquestdiffusion of language in past52
5184441771expansion diffusion - snowballing effectdiffusion of language now53
5184446048diversitywhat does isolation promote54
5184448007doesn't have oneofficial language of us55
5184449720celticsfirst humans in england56
5184450623angles, jutes, saxonsgermanic tribes57
5184453048norman tribescame after germanic tribes58
5184454570developed englishhow did germanic tribes influence english59
5184455756made more fancy wordshow did norman tribes influence english60
5184459174midwest say pop, south say sodaexample of isogloss61
5184460373standard languageproper way to speak a language62
5184465298industry, spoke proper englishnorth during colonial times63
5184467469agricultural, spoke improper englishsouth during colonial times64
5184473781germanic, indo-iranian, balto-slavic, romancemost common branches of indo-european65
5184486902albanian, amnion, greek, and celticless spoken branches of indo-european66
5184501636latinwhat are romance languages based on67
5184516933creoleexample of creolized language68
5184522829kurgan theory and anatolin theorytwo theories of origin for info-european69
5184525171sino-tibetansecond largest language family70
5184527341niger-congothird largest language family71
5184530924austro-thai and tibeto-burmantwo language branches of sino-tibetan72
5184533949korean and Japanesehave separate language families73
5184540739Vietnamesemost spoken language of austro-asiatic74
5184556370arabic and hebrewlanguage of afro-asiatic language family75
5184568360altaic and uralic language familiesother language families76
5184572919khoisan language familylanguage uses clicking sounds77
5184583036austronesian language familylanguages that are islands of Oceana78
5184590828as part of our cultural identitywhy do we protect language79
5184600103political and military power, economic power, humanitarian aidwhat does the survival of a language depend on80
5184607648belgium- radically divided by language north speak flemish south speak frenchexample of a multilingual state81
5184616368pidgen languagevery simplified version of language that people learn to communicate82

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