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| 7694422185 | accent | A way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker. | 0 | |
| 7694422186 | Bangladesh | Bengali is the principal language of | 1 | |
| 7694422187 | bilingualism | the ability to communicate in two languages | 2 | |
| 7694422188 | British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | The dialect of England associated with upper class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the UK. | 3 | |
| 7694422189 | Convergence (of languages) | collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages | 4 | |
| 7694422190 | creole/creolization | A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | 5 | |
| 7694422191 | cultural transmission | the process by which one generation passes culture to the next | 6 | |
| 7694422192 | Denglish | A term used for the diffusion of English words into German | 7 | |
| 7694422193 | dialect | A regional variation of a language in vocabulary and pronunciation. | 8 | |
| 7694422194 | divergence (of languages) | when a language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of a language, and continued isolation causes new languages to be formed | 9 | |
| 7694422195 | ebonics | dialect spoken by some African Americans | 10 | |
| 7694422196 | extinct language | A language once used by people in daily activites but is no longer used. | 11 | |
| 7694422197 | Franglais | A term used by French for English words that have entered the French language. | 12 | |
| 7694422198 | ideogram | System of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a sound, as is the case for English. | 13 | |
| 7694422199 | Iran | Farsi is the principal language of | 14 | |
| 7694422200 | isogloss | A boundary that seperates regions in which different language uses predominate | 15 | |
| 7694422201 | isolated language | Language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any family | 16 | |
| 7694422202 | isolation | the Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of | 17 | |
| 7694422203 | Israel | Hebrew is the most important language in | 18 | |
| 7694422204 | language | A system of communication through the use of speech, collection of sounds and understood by a group of people to have the same meaning. | 19 | |
| 7694422205 | language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family. | 20 | |
| 7694422206 | language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 21 | |
| 7694422207 | 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. | 22 | |
| 7694422208 | language replacement (extinction) | obliteration of an entire culture through war, disease, assimilation, or any combination of the three | 23 | |
| 7694422209 | lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. | 24 | |
| 7694422210 | linguistic fragmentation | a condition in which many languages are spoken, each by a relatively small number of people | 25 | |
| 7694422211 | linguistic geography | the study of speech areas and their local variations by mapping word choices, pronunciations, or grammatical constructions | 26 | |
| 7694422212 | literary tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken | 27 | |
| 7694422213 | Mandarin | the language with the largest # of native speakers is | 28 | |
| 7694422214 | monolingual state | country in which only one language is primarily spoken (e.g., Portugal, Japan, Venezuela, Poland, ...) | 29 | |
| 7694422215 | multilingualism | the ability to communicate in more than two languages | 30 | |
| 7694422216 | official language | A language adopted for use by the government for conduct of business and publication of documents. | 31 | |
| 7694422217 | Pakistan | Urdu is the most important language in | 32 | |
| 7694422218 | pidgin language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocab of a Lingua Franca, used for communications among speakers of different languages. | 33 | |
| 7694422219 | pre-literate societies | cultures without any written language (most of the more than 6,000 world language are unwritten) | 34 | |
| 7694422220 | Quebec | The principal concentration of French-speaking North Americans is in | 35 | |
| 7694422221 | revived language | a language that dissolved (extinct) and was subsequently resurrected | 36 | |
| 7694422222 | sound shift | slight change in a word across related languages from the present backward toward its origin | 37 | |
| 7694422223 | Spanglish | A combination of english and spanish. | 38 | |
| 7694422224 | standard language | A form of a language used for official government business, education and mass communications. | 39 | |
| 7694422225 | sub-family | group of languages with more commonality than a language family (indicates they have branched off more recently in history) | 40 | |
| 7694422226 | toponymy | the study of place names | 41 | |
| 7694422227 | vocabular, spelling, pronunciation, speed | dialects are local variants in language that differ in their | 42 | |
| 7694422228 | Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents | 43 | |
| 7694422229 | West Germanic | English is part of the _____________ language group | 44 |
