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5779464034AccentA distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.0
5779464035DialectA particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group.1
5779464036EsperantoAn artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages.2
5779464037Extinct LanguageAn extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use.3
5779464038IdeogramA written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six)4
5779464039IsoglossA geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs.5
5779464040Isolated Languagea natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language.6
5779464041Language BranchA Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family.7
5779464042LanguageThe method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.8
5779464043Language 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 vocabulary.9
5779464044Language FamilyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history10
5779464045Indo European language familyLargest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia.11
5779464046Sino-Tibetan Language Family2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese12
5779464047Lingua FrancaA Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages13
5779464048Literary TraditionA Language that is written as well as spoken14
5779464049MonolingualThe condition of being able to speak only a single language15
5779464050BilingualThe ability to speak two languages16
5779464051MultilingualThe ability to speak multiple languages17
5779464052Official LanguageThe language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.18
5779464053OrthographyThe conventional spelling system of a language.19
5779464054Pidgin LanguageA Form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.20
5779464055Standard LanguageThe form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.21
5779464056Toponyma place name or a word derived from the name of a place22
5779464057Trade LanguageA language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade.23
5779464058VernacularUsing a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people.24
5779464059Creolea mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage25
5779464060DenglishThe term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German.26
5779464061Franglaisa form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English.27
5779464062EbonicsAmerican black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English28
5779464063Spanglisha hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions.29

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