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| 8169394442 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. |  | 0 |
| 8169394444 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. |  | 1 |
| 8169394445 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) |  | 2 |
| 8169394446 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. |  | 3 |
| 8169394447 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language (Korean). |  | 4 |
| 8169394448 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. |  | 5 |
| 8169394449 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. |  | 6 |
| 8169394450 | 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. |  | 7 |
| 8169394451 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |  | 8 |
| 8169394452 | Indo European language family | Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. |  | 9 |
| 8169394453 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese |  | 10 |
| 8169394454 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |  | 11 |
| 8169394456 | Monolingual | The condition of being able to speak only a single language |  | 12 |
| 8169394457 | Bilingual | The ability to speak two languages |  | 13 |
| 8169394458 | Multilingual | The ability to speak multiple languages |  | 14 |
| 8169394459 | Official Language | In multilingual countries the language selected, often by the educated and politically powerful elite, to promote internal cohesion; usually the language of the courts and government. |  | 15 |
| 8169394461 | 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. |  | 16 |
| 8169394462 | 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, the media, and other aspects of public life |  | 17 |
| 8169394463 | Toponym | a place name or a word derived from the name of a place |  | 18 |
| 8169394465 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people. | 19 | |
| 8169394466 | Creole | A language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the mother tongue; more standardized and official uses of grammar and vocabulary are found |  | 20 |
| 8169394470 | Spanglish | a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions. |  | 21 |
| 8280100874 | Agricultural Theory of Indo-European (Renfrew Hypothesis) | with increased food supply and increased population, speakers from the hearth of Indo-European languages migrated into Europe | 22 | |
| 8280126098 | Warrior Theory of Indo-European | the first proto indo-european speakers were the Kurgans near the border between Russia and Kazakhstan and were spread via conflict/war/invasion | 23 | |
| 8280149144 | Language convergence | The collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages; the opposite of language divergence | 24 | |
| 8280152654 | Language divergence | The opposite of language convergence; a process suggested by German linguist August Schleicher whereby new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of the language and continued isolation eventually causes the division of the language into discrete new languages | 25 | |
| 8280172464 | Mutual intelligibility | The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking, often despite speaking different dialects | 26 | |
| 8280242180 | English belongs to this language family | Indo-European | 27 | |
| 8280242181 | Arabic belongs to this language family | Afro-Asiatic | 28 | |
| 8280252415 | Italian belongs on this family and branch | Indo-European --> Romance | 29 | |
| 8280258939 | English belongs on this family, branch, and group | Indo-European-->Germanic ---> West Germanic | 30 | |
| 8280264847 | Hindi belongs to this language family | Indo-European | 31 | |
| 8280267405 | Hindi belongs to this language branch | Indo-Iranian | 32 |
