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| 5866708572 | Creole | a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue of a region and/or people | 0 | |
| 5866708573 | Dialect | local or regional characteristics of a language. More than just a different accent, dialects have distinctive grammar and vocabulary, sentence structure, rhythm, and the pace of speech | 1 | |
| 5866708574 | Extinct Language | A language that is going extinct | 2 | |
| 5866708575 | Ideogram | pictures that symbolize ideas | 3 | |
| 5866708576 | Indo-European | a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite | 4 | |
| 5866708577 | Isogloss | geographical boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs | 5 | |
| 5866708578 | Language | a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | 6 | |
| 5866708579 | Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousands of years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language familes | 7 | |
| 5866708580 | Language Family | group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin (e.g., Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan,...) | 8 | |
| 5866708581 | Lingua Franca | a common language used by speakers of different languages for trade and commerce | 9 | |
| 5866708582 | Official Language | a governmentally designated language of instruction and other official public and private communication | 10 | |
| 5866708583 | Pidgin Language | When parts of two or more languages( usually of linguas francas) are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary. | 11 | |
| 5866708584 | Standard Language | The variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life. | 12 | |
| 5866708585 | Toponym | the study of place names. (e.g., San Diego or San Francisco indicate they were established by Spain due to their Spanish and Catholic connotations) | 13 | |
| 5866708586 | Trade Language/Lingua Franca | common languages used by merchants who did not speak a common tongue. "Common language" used among speakers of different languages for the purpose of trade and commerce. | 14 | |
| 5866708587 | Vernacular language | everyday language used by people, includes slang, typically what is spoken, not written, though not always the case. IDK how else to describe it. Y'all just study, k? | 15 | |
| 5866708588 | Explain how Language Families, Branches, and Groups are classified and related | Language Families-group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin (e.g., Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan,...) Language Branches-A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousands of years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language familes Language groups-set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics (e.g., Germanic, Romance, Slavic, ...) Similarities- LANGUAGE, origin | 16 | |
| 5866708589 | Map the Distribution of Major Families Worldwide |  | 17 | |
| 5866708590 | Show the following language groups and give specific examples from each Germanic Slavic Romance | Germanic- English, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish Slavic- Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croaction, Bulgarian. Romance- French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese. | 18 | |
| 5866708593 | Describe how languages become extinct and efforts use to preserve them | How they become extinct: - Language Shift (group of people begin to speak another language) - Globalization How to Preserve: - Isolation - Education/Literary Tradition - Cultural/Language Preservation Groups/Societies | 19 | |
| 5866708594 | Dialect chains | A set of contiguous dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related. | 20 | |
| 5866708595 | Subfamilies | Divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent. | 21 | |
| 5866708596 | Cognate | a word that has the same linguistic derivation as another word (i.e., the word comes from the same root as another word) | 22 | |
| 5866708597 | Proto-Indo-European | Linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral Indo-European language that is the hearth of the ancient Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit languages; this hearth would link modern languages from Scandinavia to North Africa and from North America through parts of Asia to Australia. | 23 | |
| 5866708598 | Proto-Eurasiatic | Linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of a language or group of languages that predated, and gave rise to, Proto-Indo-European and other language families with Eurasian origins. | 24 | |
| 5866708599 | Language Divergence | The opposite of language convergence; a process suggested by German linguist August Schleicher whereby new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of the language and continued isolation eventually causes the division of the language into discrete new languages. | 25 | |
| 5866708600 | Romance Languages | Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian | 26 | |
| 5866708601 | Slavic Languages | Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbocroatian, Bulgarian | 27 | |
| 5866708602 | Germanic Languages | English, German, Danish, Norweigen, and Swedish | 28 | |
| 5866708603 | Global Language | The language used most commonly around the world; defined on the basis of either the number of speakers of the language, or prevalence of use in commerce and trade. | 29 | |
| 5866708604 | Syncretism | blending of aspects of culture/religion/schools of thought | 30 |
