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| 6213136850 | lanaguge | a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning | 0 | |
| 6213140982 | official language | the one used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps | 1 | |
| 6213145420 | language family | a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history | 2 | |
| 6213149528 | language branch | a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago | 3 | |
| 6213154656 | language group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary | 4 | |
| 6213160535 | Indo-european | - Predominant in Europe, South Asia, and North and Latin America. - 46% of the world speak this. | 5 | |
| 6213165254 | sibo-tibetan | - More than 400 languages in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia - Genetic relationship between Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese | 6 | |
| 6213171108 | austronesian | - Derives from a family of languages spoken in an area extending from Madagascar in the west to the Pacific islands in the east - Speakers in Africa, Oceania, and Asia | 7 | |
| 6213174007 | austro-asiatic | - Classified with Mon-Khmer branch - Also scattered throughout India, Bangladesh, and southern border of China | 8 | |
| 6213177714 | Tai Kadai | - Principal language of Thailand and some portions of China - Estimated 85 million people speak this | 9 | |
| 6213180336 | Japenese | - Spoken by 2% of the world - Use of ideograms (kanji) that represent ideas and phonetic symbols | 10 | |
| 6213182740 | Korean | - Written in a system called Hangul (each letter represents a sound) - Words derive from Chinese and Japanese | 11 | |
| 6213185469 | Afro-asiatic | - 375 genetically related languages - Subdivided in six branches | 12 | |
| 6213188530 | Altaic | - Three language families: Mongolian, Turkic, and Manchu-Tungus - Located in East, North, Central, and West Asia and Eastern Europe | 13 | |
| 6213198354 | Uralic | - Languages spoken in Finland, Estonia, and Hungary - 1st used thousand of years ago by people in Russia, which spread to Europe | 14 | |
| 6213201557 | Niger-congo | - Spoken by 6% of the world - Swahili is the most common language within this branch | 15 | |
| 6213205929 | Nilo-Saharan | - Spoken in northern and central Africa - Only a few speakers; divided in six branches | 16 | |
| 6213209360 | Khoisan | - Spoken in the southwest coast of Africa - Unique usage of clicking sounds; named by whites in southern Africa as "Hottentot" | 17 | |
| 6218676352 | The four most contemporary Romance languages are | italian, spanish, portegeuse, french | 18 | |
| 6218778302 | Vulgar Latin | the latin that people in the provinces learned was not the standard literary form but a spoke form | 19 | |
| 6219037044 | standard language | a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business education, and mass communication | 20 | |
| 6219204486 | creolized language | a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 21 | |
| 6219228356 | what languages are part of celtic? | Welsh, Irish, Breton, Scottish, Cornish | 22 | |
| 6219327501 | pidgin language | a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers or two different languages | 23 |
