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8192518326AccentA way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker.0
8192518327Anatolian HypothesisThe Proto-Indo-European language peacefully spread through the innovation of agriculture1
8192518328Creolea mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages2
8192518329DialectA regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.3
8192518330extinct languageA language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.4
8192518331ideogramsymbol that stands for a concept rather than a word5
8192518332Indo-Europeanrelating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India.6
8192518333Nostratic Hypothesishypothesized ancestral language of Proto-Indo-European, as well as other ancestral language families7
8192518334IsoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.8
8192518335Isolated languageA language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family9
8192518336Kurgan HypothesisBelief that Indo-Europeans spread from Central Asian conquerors who arrived on horseback.(kurgans)10
8192518337Languageour spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning11
8192518338Language branchA collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago12
8192518339Language familyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history13
8192518340Language groupA collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary14
8192518341Lingua francaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages15
8192518342Literary traditionA language that is written as well as spoken16
8192518343mono-lingualitySpeaking only one language17
8192518344bi-lingualitySpeaking two languages18
8192518345multi-lingualitySpeaking several languages19
8192518346National languageMost common language used in the nation: , language with the widest distribution and most speakers20
8192518347Official languageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents21
8192518348OrthographyThe conventional spelling system of a language22
8192518349PidginA form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers or two different languages23
8192518350Polyglota speaker of many languages24
8192518351Slangnewly coined words that are not yet a part of formal usage25
8192518352Standard languageThe form of language used for official government business, education, and mass communications26
8192518353SyntaxThe arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.27
8192518354ToponymThe name given to a portion of Earth's surface.28
8192518355trade languagea common language that emerges when countries trade with each other29
8192518356VernacularEveryday language of ordinary people30
8192518357vocabularywords used to communicate either a spoken or written message31

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