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| 5580166592 | Language | a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people who have the same meaning |  | 0 |
| 5580169270 | Dialect | a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation |  | 1 |
| 5580171685 | Language Family | a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 2 | |
| 5580174001 | 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 | 3 | |
| 5580180037 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |  | 4 |
| 5580186956 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 5 | |
| 5580188829 | Isogloss | a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs, such boundary is rarely a simple line | 6 | |
| 5580193487 | Language Subfamily | Commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent | 7 | |
| 5580195540 | Creole Language | a pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language of a group of people | 8 | |
| 5580197176 | Pidgin Language | When people speaking two or more different languages are in contact with each other and they combine parts of their languages in a simplified structure and vocabulary | 9 | |
| 5580198954 | Monolingual States | countries in which only one language is spoken there | 10 | |
| 5580202468 | Toponym | a place name | 11 |
