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| 7976035592 | Backward reconstruction | The technique used to track language back to its origin through comparing it to other similar languages. | 0 | |
| 7976035593 | British Revised Pronunciation (BRP) | The dialect of England associated with upper class British people living in the London area, and now considered a standard dialect in the UK | 1 | |
| 7976035594 | Conquest theory | theory of the diffusion of the Proto-Indo-European language into Europe through the speakers' overpowering of earlier inhabitants through warfare and technology | 2 | |
| 7976035595 | Creole language | A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 3 | |
| 7976035596 | Culture | the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group | 4 | |
| 7976035597 | Deep reconstruction | Technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to re-create the language that preceded the extinct language. | 5 | |
| 7976035598 | Dialect | a particular form of language that is peculiar to a specific region, or social group. | 6 | |
| 7976035599 | Dialect chains | a set of contiguous dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related | 7 | |
| 7976035600 | Dispersal hypothesis | Theory which holds that the Indo-European languages that arose from Porto-Indo-European were first carried eastward into Southwest Asia, next around the Caspian Sean and then across the Russian-Ukrainian plains and on into the Balkans. | 8 | |
| 7976035601 | Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African Americans | 9 | |
| 7976035602 | Extinct language | A language that is no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world. | 10 | |
| 7976035603 | Franglais | A term used by the French for English words than have entered the French language; a combination of francais and anglais, the French words for "French" and "English", respectively. | 11 | |
| 7976035604 | Germanic languages | Languages (English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) that reflect the expansion of peoples out of Northern Europe to the west and south | 12 | |
| 7976035605 | Global language | A language spoken internationally, which is learned by many people as a second language. | 13 | |
| 7976035606 | Ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sounds, as is the case with letter in English. | 14 | |
| 7976035607 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | 15 | |
| 7976035608 | Language | A system of communication, through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning | 16 | |
| 7976035609 | Language branch | When a language branches off from its origin and makes a new one. | 17 | |
| 7976035610 | Language divergence | When a language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of a language, and continued isolation causes new languages to be formed | 18 | |
| 7976035611 | Language family | collection of languages related through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 19 | |
| 7976035612 | Language group | A group of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary | 20 | |
| 7976035613 | Lingua franca | a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother tongue, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both mother tongues. | 21 | |
| 7976035614 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken | 22 | |
| 7976035615 | Monolingual states | Countries with only one official language | 23 | |
| 7976035616 | Multilingual states | Countries in which more than one language is spoken | 24 | |
| 7976035617 | Mutual intelligibility | The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking | 25 | |
| 7976035618 | Official language | a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction | 26 | |
| 7976035619 | 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 | 27 | |
| 7976035620 | Place | A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character | 28 | |
| 7976035621 | Proto-Indo-European | Linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral Indo-European language that is the hearth of ancient Latin, Greek and Sanskrit languages, which hearth would link modern languages from Scandinavia to North Africa and from North American through parts of Asia to Australia | 29 | |
| 7976035622 | Renfew hypothesis | Theory developed by a British scholar wherein he proposed that three area in and near the first agricultural hearth, the Fertile Crescent, gave rise to three language families, | 30 | |
| 7976035623 | Romance languages | The group of languages derived from Latin (French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese) | 31 | |
| 7976035624 | Slavic languages | (Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukranian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian) developed as Slavic people migrated from a base in present-day Ukraine around 2000 years ago | 32 | |
| 7976035625 | Sound shift | A gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, especially of vowels | 33 | |
| 7976035626 | Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English | 34 | |
| 7976035627 | Standard language | The variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, and is recognized by other states | 35 | |
| 7976035628 | Toponym | The name given to a portion of Earth's surface | 36 | |
| 7976035629 | Vulgar Latin | The Latin learned by people in provinces taken over by the Roman Empire; it wasn't the standard literary form but a spoken form of Latin | 37 |
