Language
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| 9673551429 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. | 0 | |
| 9673551430 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. | 1 | |
| 9673551432 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. | 2 | |
| 9673551433 | Isolated Language | a 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. | 3 | |
| 9673551434 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. | 4 | |
| 9673551435 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. | 5 | |
| 9673551436 | Language Group | A 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. | 6 | |
| 9673551437 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 7 | |
| 9673551438 | Indo European language family | Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. | 8 | |
| 9673551439 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese | 9 | |
| 9673551440 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 10 | |
| 9673551442 | Monolingual State | Country in which only one language is spoken | 11 | |
| 9673551444 | Multilingual State | Country in which multiple languages are spoken | 12 | |
| 9673551445 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 13 | |
| 9673551446 | 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. | 14 | |
| 9673551447 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 15 | |
| 9673551450 | Creole | a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage | 16 | |
| 9673617926 | Language Tree | 19 language families. Each family has its own branches. Each branch has its own groups. Each group has its own language. Each language has its own dialects. | 17 | |
| 9673638864 | Germanic Language | Language that is spoken by people in parts of western European and northern Europe that belongs to one of two groups, West or North Germanic of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family | 18 | |
| 9673667913 | Romance Language | Languages derives from latin that include Italian, Spanish, French, and Romanian | 19 | |
| 9673676556 | Language Diversion | Occurs when new languages or dialects grow from the original source bc of migration of original speakers to new lands or contact with new languages | 20 | |
| 9673693194 | Polyglot | Person that speaks many languages | 21 |
