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| 5787664642 | creole | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | 0 | |
| 5787664643 | dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 1 | |
| 5787664644 | ebonics | A dialect spoken by some African Americans. | 2 | |
| 5787664645 | extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 3 | |
| 5787664646 | isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different languages usages predominate. | 4 | |
| 5787664647 | isolated language | A.K.A. language isolate; A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. | 5 | |
| 5787664648 | 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. | 6 | |
| 5787664649 | language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family. | 7 | |
| 5787664650 | language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 8 | |
| 5787664651 | 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 vocabulary. | 9 | |
| 5787664652 | lingua franca | A language that is mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. | 10 | |
| 5787664653 | literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken. | 11 | |
| 5787664655 | official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 12 | |
| 5787664659 | standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education and mass communications. | 13 | |
| 5787664656 | 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. | 14 | |
| 5787664657 | Received Pronunciation (RP) | The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom. | 15 | |
| 5787664658 | Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans. | 16 | |
| 5787664660 | Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversations by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents. | 17 | |
| 5787665009 | accent | a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class. | 18 | |
| 5787669876 | slang | Informal, non-standard words and phrases. | 19 | |
| 5787670073 | logogram | A written character that represents a word or phrase; I.E. Chinese and Japanese characters, Egyptian hieroglyphs. |  | 20 |
| 5787687663 | phonogram | A written character that represents a sound. I.E. Latin alphabet, Korean Hangul. |  | 21 |
| 5787676604 | toponym | Name of a place. | 22 | |
| 5787676605 | vernacular | The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region. | 23 | |
| 5787677553 | Indo-European | The language family that is the most widely-spoken and has the largest number of speakers; Includes the Germanic, Romance, and Slavic branches (among many others). |  | 24 |
| 5787677554 | Sino-Tibetan | A language family that includes languages spoken in parts of China and Myanmar. |  | 25 |
| 5787677597 | Esperanto | A language not of any country or ethnic group; a neutral, international language. | 26 |
