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3496639884creole languageA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated0
3496639885denglishA combination of German and English1
3496639886dialectA regional variety of language distinguished by vocabulary spelling and pronunciation2
3496639887Ebonicsa dialect spoken by some African-Americans3
3496639888extinct languageA language that was once used by people and daily activities but is no longer used4
3496639889franglaisused by the French for English words that have entered the French language5
3496639890isoglossA boundary that separates regions in which different language usage predominate6
3496639891isolated languageA language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family7
3496639892languageA system of communication through the use of speech at a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning8
3496639893language branchA collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago9
3496639894language familyA collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history10
3496639895language groupA collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary11
3496639896lingua francaA language mutually understood and commonly used in trade with people who have different native languages12
3496639897literary traditionhey language that is written well as spoken13
3496639898logogramA symbol that represents a word rather than a sound14
3496639899official languageThe language adopted for used by the government for the conduct of businesses and publication of documents15
3496639900pidgin languagehey form of speech that adopt a simplified grammar a limited vocabulary of a lingua franca use for communications among speakers of two different languages16
3496639901received pronunciationThe dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom17
3496639902spanglishA combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans18
3496639903Standard languageThe form of a language is for official government business education in mass communications19
3496639904Vulgar LatinA form of Latin used to do the conversation by ancient Romans as opposed to the standard dialect which was used for official documents20

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