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| 8796448959 | language | a system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another | 0 | |
| 8796457708 | mutual intelligibility | the ability of two people to understand each other when speaking | 1 | |
| 8796463313 | standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications | 2 | |
| 8796463314 | accent | the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world | 3 | |
| 8796463315 | dialects | different forms of the same language that have unique words, meanings, and pronunciations | 4 | |
| 8796465786 | slang | informal language | 5 | |
| 8796465787 | dialect chain | 6 | ||
| 8796465788 | isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | 7 | |
| 8796468604 | language families | Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin | 8 | |
| 8796468605 | language branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | 9 | |
| 8796472501 | language group | set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics | 10 | |
| 8796472502 | subfamilies | divisions within a language family | 11 | |
| 8796472503 | sound shift | slight change in a word across related languages from the present backward toward its origin | 12 | |
| 8796477618 | proto-indo-european | the original language from which almost all modern European languages descend | 13 | |
| 8796477619 | proto-tongue | original language | 14 | |
| 8796483891 | backward reconstruction | The tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants "backward" toward the original language | 15 | |
| 8796483892 | extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 16 | |
| 8796488494 | deep reconstruction | process by which an extinct language is recreated | 17 | |
| 8796488495 | nostratic language | 18 | ||
| 8796491913 | language divergence | new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects | 19 | |
| 8796491914 | language convergence | collapsing of two language into one | 20 | |
| 8796494688 | language replacement | Replacing a language | 21 | |
| 8796494689 | conquest theory | theory of how proto-inko european spread into europe that speakers spread westward on horseback | 22 | |
| 8796497287 | dispersal hypothesis | the hypothesis that the Indo-European languages were carried around east then west | 23 | |
| 8796497288 | romance languages | Any of the languages derived from Latin including Italian, Spanish, French, and Romanian | 24 | |
| 8796500649 | germatic languages | 25 | ||
| 8796500650 | slavic languages | Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, slovenian, Serbo-croation, bulgarian | 26 | |
| 8796504373 | lingua france | the language used by a population as their common language | 27 | |
| 8796504374 | pidgin language | When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary | 28 | |
| 8796509293 | creole language | a language that develops from a pidgin language and is taught as a first language | 29 | |
| 8796509294 | monolingual states | countries in which only one language is spoken | 30 | |
| 8796515970 | multilingual states | countries in which more than one language is spoken | 31 | |
| 8796515971 | official language | the required language of instruction in schools, government business, courts, | 32 | |
| 8796519686 | global language | a common language of trade and commerce used around the world | 33 | |
| 8796523170 | toponyms | the name by which a geographical place is known | 34 | |
| 8796525353 | afro-asiatic family | 4th largest includes arabic and hebrew | 35 | |
| 8796527498 | amerind family | 36 | ||
| 8796527499 | austronesian family | 37 | ||
| 8796531063 | dravidian family | 38 | ||
| 8796533609 | indo-european family | 39 | ||
| 8796533610 | niger-congo family | 40 | ||
| 8796537897 | sino-tibetan family | 41 |
