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| 5210748622 | Accent | a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language especially one associated with a particular nation locality or social class | 0 | |
| 5210789522 | Anatolian Hypothesis | The Indo-European language peacefully spread through the innovation of agriculture | 1 | |
| 5210894767 | Creole | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 2 | |
| 5210914191 | Dialect | a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, selling, pronunciation | 3 | |
| 5210946263 | Esperanto | A reconstructed Latin-based language, which its European proponents in the early twentieth century hoped would become a global language. | 4 | |
| 5210952649 | Extinct language | a language once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used | 5 | |
| 5210956783 | Ideogram | symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word | 6 | |
| 5210966644 | Indo-European | languages from the Indo-European family. Spoken by half of the world's people, and includes, among others, the Germanic, Romance, and Slavic subfamilies. | 7 | |
| 5210974220 | Nostratic hypothesis | a hypothesized family of languages ancestral to several of the established language families of Eurasia and northern Africa and including in some classifications the Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Kartvelian, Dravidian, and Afro-Asiatic languages. | 8 | |
| 5210980482 | Isogloss | a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | 9 | |
| 5210990769 | Isolated language or a language isolate | a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family NOT a language spoken in an isolated area | 10 | |
| 5210998182 | Kurgan hypothesis | The Proto-Indo-European language diffused from modern day Ukraine through conquest. | 11 | |
| 5211009258 | Language | a system of communication through the use of speech; a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning | 12 | |
| 5211022522 | Language branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago, a stem of a language family | 13 | |
| 5211036497 | Language family | a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history | 14 | |
| 5211044147 | 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 | 15 | |
| 5211059222 | Linguistic Fragmentation | condition in which many languages are spoken each by a relatively small number of people | 16 | |
| 5211070960 | Literacy Rate | the number/percentage of people who can read | 17 | |
| 5211077422 | Literary tradtion | a language that is written as well as spoken | 18 | |
| 5211083670 | Mono-Linguality | speaking one language | 19 | |
| 5211093220 | Bi-linguality | speaking two languages | 20 | |
| 5211112758 | Multi-linguality | speaking more than 2 languages | 21 | |
| 5211118918 | National language | is a language which has some connection with a people and perhaps by extension the territory they occupy. The term is used variously: e.g. national language may for instance represent the national identity of a nation or country. | 22 | |
| 5211123930 | Official language | the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 23 | |
| 5211226105 | Orthography | the study of where languages originate | 24 | |
| 5211267462 | Pidgin | 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 | 25 | |
| 5211272001 | Polygot | knowing or using several languages, an area where several languages are spoken; | 26 | |
| 5211278262 | Protolanguage | a language ancestral to several (daughter) languages | 27 | |
| 5211292104 | Slang | a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people | 28 | |
| 5211296168 | Speech community | a group of speakers who share a language and patterns of language use. Members of the community speak more often with each other than they do with members outside the community. This pattern of behavior is known as communicative isolation. | 29 | |
| 5211300580 | Standard language | the most common language used by the people,may or may not correspond to the official language | 30 | |
| 5211314498 | Syntax | the arrangment of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 31 | |
| 5211324588 | Toponym | a name given to a portion of the earth's surface | 32 | |
| 5211330427 | Trade language | a simplified language that develops as a mean of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common | 33 | |
| 5211335128 | Vernacular | common,everyday language of the people | 34 | |
| 5211337041 | Vocabulary | the body of words used in a particular language | 35 |
