Language
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| 8043827728 | Accent | A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. | 0 | |
| 8043827729 | Dialect | A regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation, particular to a specific region or social group. |  | 1 |
| 8043827730 | Extinct Language | A language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. |  | 2 |
| 8043827731 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. Used in Mandarin (Chinese) |  | 3 |
| 8043827732 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. |  | 4 |
| 8043827733 | Isolated Language | A natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages or language families; 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. (Basque) |  | 5 |
| 8043827734 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. |  | 6 |
| 8043827735 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. |  | 7 |
| 8043827736 | 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. An individual language, including all dialects (I.e. Italian, German, English) |  | 8 |
| 8043827737 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. The trunk of the language tree, from which language branches come from. |  | 9 |
| 8043827738 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages (currently English worldwide). |  | 10 |
| 8043827739 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken. | 11 | |
| 8043827740 | Monolingual State | A country in which only one language is spoken (i.e. Japan, Korea) |  | 12 |
| 8043827741 | Bilingual | The ability to speak two languages. |  | 13 |
| 8043827742 | Multilingual State | A country in which more than one language is in use (India, Nigeria, Belgium, Switzerland) |  | 14 |
| 8043827743 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents, a language that is given special legal status. |  | 15 |
| 8043827744 | Orthography | The conventional spelling system of a language (it's alphabet). |  | 16 |
| 8043827745 | 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. |  | 17 |
| 8043827746 | Standard Language | The specific form of a language that is most widely accepted. Arises when a certain dialect begins to be used in written form. The ways in which this language is used—e.g., in administrative matters, literature, and economic life—lead to the minimization of linguistic variation. |  | 18 |
| 8043827747 | Toponym | The name of a place, often reflecting that place's history and culture. |  | 19 |
| 8043827748 | Creole | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. Developed out of an earlier pidgin stage. |  | 20 |
| 8043827749 | Denglish | The term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German. |  | 21 |
| 8043827750 | Franglais | A form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English. |  | 22 |
| 8043827751 | Ebonics | A dialect of English spoken by some African Americans. |  | 23 |
| 8043827752 | Spanglish | A hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions. |  | 24 |
| 8043827753 | Francophone | Places and countries where French is spoken around the world. (Quebec in Canada, Vietnam, Haiti, Sub-Saharan Africa, Belgium, Switzerland, France). | 25 | |
| 8043827754 | British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | The dialect of English associated with upper class Britons living in the London area now considered the standard form of British speech. | 26 | |
| 8043827755 | Language Divergence | When a lack of spatial interaction (isolation) among speakers of a language breaks the language into dialects and then new languages. | 27 | |
| 8043827756 | Language Convergence | When peoples with different languages have consistent spatial interaction and their languages collapse into one (i.e. pidgin and creole). | 28 | |
| 8043827757 | Globalization | The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence and operate on an international scale. | 29 | |
| 8043827758 | slang | informal word usage by a segment of the population | 30 | |
| 8043827759 | linguist | a scientist who studies languages | 31 |
