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| 5861597850 | global language | common language of trade and commerce used around the world | 0 | |
| 5861603158 | official language | countries with linguistic fragmentation often adopt this to tie people together | 1 | |
| 5861608504 | multilingual states | countries where more than one language is in use | 2 | |
| 5861612971 | monolingual states | countries where only one language is spoken | 3 | |
| 5861617115 | creole language | a pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language of a group of people | 4 | |
| 5861625557 | pidgin language | when people speaking two or more languages are in contact and they combine parts of their language in a simplified structure and vocabulary | 5 | |
| 5861633391 | lingua franca | language used among speakers of different languages for the purpose of trade and commerce | 6 | |
| 5861643504 | toponym | place name | 7 | |
| 5861647372 | Renfrew hypothesis | claims that Anatolia (present-day Turkey - to which agriculture diffused early from the nearby Fertile Crescent) diffused Europe's Indo-European languages; from the western arc of the Fertile Crescent came the languages of North Africa and Arabia; from the Fertile Crescent's eastern arc ancient languages spread into Iran | 8 | |
| 5861672951 | language convergence | sometimes happens when peoples of different languages have consistent spatial interaction | 9 | |
| 5861681581 | language divergence | how new languages form, it occurs when spatial interaction among speakers of a language breaks down and the language fragments first into dialects, then into discrete tongues | 10 | |
| 5861698614 | extinct language | a language without any native speakers | 11 | |
| 5861703607 | sound shift | a slight change in a word across languages within a subfamily or through a language family from the present backward toward its origin | 12 | |
| 5861714141 | language groups | divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent | 13 | |
| 5861722670 | language families | how languages are classified at the global scale | 14 | |
| 5861727166 | isogloss | geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic figure occurs | 15 | |
| 5861733449 | dialects | variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines | 16 | |
| 5861741809 | standard language | a language that is published, widely distributed, and purposefully taught | 17 | |
| 5861749596 | mutual intelligibility | means that two people can understand each other when speaking | 18 | |
| 5861753972 | language | set of sounds and symbols that is used for communication | 19 |
