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| 6460846710 | Language | a system of communication through speech, or a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning | 0 | |
| 6461105450 | Institutional Language | a language that is used in education, work, mass media and the government. ex: English in America |  | 1 |
| 6461113581 | Official Language | a language that is used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects (road signs, money, and stamps) ex: British colonies designate English as their official language even though few can speak it. |  | 2 |
| 6461124923 | Literary Tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken |  | 3 |
| 6461200230 | Developing Language | a language that is spoken in daily use by people of all ages, from children to elderly individuals |  | 4 |
| 6461204269 | Vigorous Language | a language that is spoken in daily use by people of all ages but it lacks a literary tradition | 5 | |
| 6461218559 | Language Family | a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history. ex: Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Austronesian |  | 6 |
| 6461230716 | Language Branch | a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence. ex: Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Romance, and Indo-Iranian are part of the Indo-European language family |  | 7 |
| 6461252989 | 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 knowledge. ex: English, German, Dutch, and Frisian are part of the Germanic language branch. | 8 | |
| 6480211149 | Vulgar Latin | a form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed by the standard dialect used for official documents. | 9 | |
| 6481240138 | Franglais | a combination of French and English | 10 | |
| 6481247321 | Denglish | a combination of Deutsch (German) and English | 11 | |
| 6481251019 | Spanglish | a combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans | 12 | |
| 6482665410 | Logogram | a symbol that represents a word rather than a sound |  | 13 |
| 6506301874 | Dialect | a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 14 | |
| 6506559080 | Subdialect | a subdivision of a dialect. | 15 | |
| 6506589127 | Isogloss | a word-usage boundary |  | 16 |
| 6509728842 | Creole (creolized language) | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |  | 17 |
| 6514461923 | Standard Language | the form of a language used for government, business, education and mass communication. |  | 18 |
| 6514467603 | Received Pronunciation (RP) | the dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom |  | 19 |
| 6515201609 | Isolated Language | a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family ex: Basque, Korean | 20 |
