Language: Unit 4
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| 9229214068 | Accent | a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | 0 | |
| 9229214069 | Dialect | a regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation; also a form of a language spoken by members of a particular social class or profession | 1 | |
| 9229214070 | Esperanto | an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languages | 2 | |
| 9229214071 | Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 3 | |
| 9229214072 | Ideogram | symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word | 4 | |
| 9229214073 | Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. | 5 | |
| 9229214074 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 6 | |
| 9229214075 | Pidgin Language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages. | 7 | |
| 9229214076 | Toponym | place name | 8 | |
| 9229214077 | Vernacular | the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | 9 | |
| 9229214078 | Creole Language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | 10 | |
| 9229214079 | Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. | 11 | |
| 9229214080 | Language | a system of words used in a particular discipline | 12 | |
| 9229214081 | Language Group | a set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics | 13 | |
| 9229214082 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 14 | |
| 9229214083 | Lingua Franca | a common language used by speakers of different languages | 15 | |
| 9229214085 | Mono-bi-multi Linguality | Mono: One Language is spoken fluently Bi: 2 languages are spoken fluently Multi: More than 1 languages are spoken fluently | 16 | |
| 9229214087 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 17 | |
| 9229214088 | Trade Language | A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other. | 18 | |
| 9229214089 | Conquest Theory | the theory that early Proto-Indo-European speakers spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tounges | 19 | |
| 9229214090 | Global Language | language used commonly around the world | 20 | |
| 9229214095 | Proto-Indo-European | a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages | 21 | |
| 9229214098 | Language Convergence | collapsing of two language into one. | 22 | |
| 9229214099 | Language Divergence | new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects | 23 | |
| 9229214100 | Renfrew Hypothesis | three areas in and around fertile crescent, gave rise to three language families. | 24 | |
| 9229214101 | Dispersal Hypothesis | says that Indo-European language arose from Proto-Indo-European and spread east through Southwest Asia. | 25 | |
| 9229214102 | Multilingual States | countries in which more than one language is spoken | 26 | |
| 9229214103 | Monolingual States | countries in which only one language is spoken | 27 |
