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| 8343151187 | Language | One of the oldest most geographically diverse and most complex cultural traits on earth | 0 | |
| 8343151188 | Language family | A collection of many languages, all of which came from the same original tongue long ago, but have since about different characteristics | 1 | |
| 8343151189 | Indo - European family | Language family containing the Germanic and romance languages that includes languages spoken by about 50% of the worlds people | 2 | |
| 8343151190 | Sino - Tibetan family | Language area that spreads through most of south east Asia and China and is comprised of Chinese Burmese Tibetan Japanese and Korean | 3 | |
| 8343151191 | Language groups | A set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics | 4 | |
| 8343151192 | Romance languages | Any of the languages derived from Latin including Italian, Spanish, French, and Romanian. | 5 | |
| 8343151193 | Dialects | Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary somewhat from parent form. | 6 | |
| 8343151194 | Accents | varieties of language that differ solely in pronunciation | 7 | |
| 8343151195 | Isoglosses | Geographical boundary lines where different linguistic features meet. | 8 | |
| 8343151196 | pidgin | language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language | 9 | |
| 8343151197 | Creole | A pidgin that evolves to the point that it becomes the primary language to the people who speak it. | 10 | |
| 8343151198 | Esperanto | A constructed international auxiliary language incorporating aspects of numerous linguistic traditions to create or universal means of communication | 11 | |
| 8343151199 | Lingua franca | And extremely simple language that combines aspects of two or more other, more complex languages usually used for a quick and efficient communication | 12 | |
| 8343151200 | Official language | Language in which all government business occurs in a country. | 13 | |
| 8343151201 | polyglot | A multi lingual state | 14 | |
| 8343151202 | Language extinction | This occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people. Thousands of languages have become extinct over the eons since language for us developed, but the process of language extinction has accelerated greatly during the past 300 years | 15 | |
| 8343151203 | Acculturation | The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another. | 16 | |
| 8343151204 | Cultural extinction | Obliteration of an entire culture by war, disease, acculturation, or a combination of the three. | 17 | |
| 8343151205 | literacy | the ability to read and write | 18 | |
| 8343151206 | Toponyms | place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features, and streams. | 19 |
