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| collapsing of two language into one. | ||
| new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects | ||
| Replacing a language | ||
| The diversification of languages | ||
| process by which an extinct language is recreated | ||
| language thought to be used before the indo-european languages were developed | ||
| hypothesized ancestral language of Proto-Indo-European, as well as other ancestral language families. | ||
| family of indigenous American languages. Second oldest & largest family. Less widely diffused. | ||
| any of the languages spoken by Amerindians | ||
| the language and culture of the eskimo-aleut people | ||
| with increased food supply and increased population, speakers from the hearth of Indo-European languages migrated into Europe | ||
| theory of how proto-inko european spread into europe that speakers spread westward on horseback | ||
| discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race | ||
| an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties | ||
| a society in which different cultural groupls keep their own identity, beliefs, and traditions | ||
| small, usually rural and ethnically homogeneous enclaves situated within a larger and more diverse cultural context. | ||
| a culturally shared trait that gives an ethnic or cultural group a strengthened sense of awareness and self-identity | ||
| process that works against globalization, revitalizing cultural ties and promoting distinction. | ||
| The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people. | ||
| The largest language family and spoken by about half the worlds population. | ||
| A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. | ||
| The mental faculty or power of vocal communication. | ||
| A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | ||
| 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. | ||
| A smaller group of related languages within a language family. | ||
| Variety of different languages being spoken. | ||
| People who speak their language but cannot write it. | ||
| The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | ||
| the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language | ||
| The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | ||
| countries in which only one language is spoken | ||
| a state that uses many languages | ||
| two different speaking language people find a common language to communicate | ||
| a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages | ||
| an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages | ||
| an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languages |
