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| 11812981425 | FBGLD | Family, Branch, Group, Language, Dialect | 0 | |
| 11812987338 | How many languages may be lost by the end of the century? | 50% | 1 | |
| 11812996225 | How many languages are spoken in the world today? | Around 7,000 | 2 | |
| 11813003160 | Ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English. | 3 | |
| 11813011584 | Multilingual state | Countries in which more than one language is spoken | 4 | |
| 11813023865 | Homogenous | Made up of ethically similar people. | 5 | |
| 11813029448 | Official Language | A language designated by law to be the language of government. | 6 | |
| 11813036971 | Swahili | A Bantu language with Arabic words, spoken along the east African coast | 7 | |
| 11813044531 | Creole/Creolized Language | Mixing of colonizer's language with the indigenous language. | 8 | |
| 11813056522 | Pidgin language | A simplified grammar and vocab used for communication when speakers speak two different languages. | 9 | |
| 11813068973 | Slang | Informal word usage by a segment of the population. | 10 | |
| 11813076056 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. | 11 | |
| 11813086438 | Adages | Sayings that attempt to express a truth about life | 12 | |
| 11813093656 | Dialect | Regional variety of language. | 13 | |
| 11813098220 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | 14 | |
| 11813109061 | Romance languages | Languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese) that lie in the areas that were once controlled by the Roman Empire | 15 | |
| 11813119089 | Indo-European Language Family | A large group of languages that might all have descended from a language spoken around 6,000 years ago. | 16 | |
| 11813129744 | Language Tree | The relationship between languages, showing their origins and relationships to one another. | 17 | |
| 11813140042 | Linguists | Scientists who study languages | 18 | |
| 11813153802 | Sedentary Farmer Thesis | AKA Agriculture Theory. Existing 2,000 years before Kurgans, groups diffused slowly with their agricultural practices, diffusing the Indo-European language. | 19 | |
| 11813157837 | Agriculture Theory | AKA Sedentary Farmer Thesis. Existing 2,000 years before Kurgans, groups diffused slowly with their agricultural practices, diffusing the Indo-European language. | 20 | |
| 11813182454 | Kurgan Hearth Thesis | AKA Nomadic Warrior Thesis, Conquest Theory. Indo-European language spread from Kurgan people from Russia, conquering Europe and South Asia. | 21 | |
| 11813182455 | Nomadic Warrior Thesis | AKA Kurgan Hearth Thesis, Conquest Theory. Indo-European language spread from Kurgan people from Russia, conquering Europe and South Asia. | 22 | |
| 11813182456 | Conquest Theory | AKA Kurgan Hearth Thesis, Nomadic Warrior Thesis. Indo-European language spread from Kurgan people from Russia, conquering Europe and South Asia. | 23 | |
| 11813220506 | Monolingual States | Contain speakers of only one language. | 24 | |
| 11813232986 | Devolution | When a government allows power to lower levels of government. | 25 | |
| 11813237699 | Celtic Languages | Languages spoken before the invasions of the Angels, Saxons, and Jutes. | 26 | |
| 11813248967 | SPECIFIC type of toponym? | Provides the site specific name that was given a feature. | 27 | |
| 11813257600 | GENERIC type of toponym? | Identifies the type of place. | 28 | |
| 11813264699 | What are the 2 types of toponyms? | Generic, Specific | 29 | |
| 11813268210 | Standard Language | Form of language used officially for government, business, education. etc. | 30 | |
| 11813275505 | Vulgar Latin | Type of Latin spoken by the masses not the standard literary form. | 31 | |
| 11813283883 | FRAMES | French, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, English and Spanish. | 32 | |
| 11813291465 | Official UN Languages? | French, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, English and Spanish | 33 | |
| 11813311364 | Distribution of language is a result of what 2 factors? | Interaction, Isolation | 34 | |
| 11813317565 | Language Family | Languages related to each other through a common ancestor before recorded time. | 35 |
