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| 8076632960 | Creole language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. |  | 0 |
| 8076632961 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. |  | 1 |
| 8076632962 | Extinct language | A language that was once use by people in daily activities but is no longer used. |  | 2 |
| 8076632963 | Ideogram | 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 |
| 8076632964 | Indo-European | Language family including the Germanic and Romance languages that is spoken by about 50% of the world's people. |  | 4 |
| 8076632965 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. |  | 5 |
| 8076632966 | Isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. | | 6 |
| 8076632967 | 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. |  | 7 |
| 8076632968 | Language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family. |  | 8 |
| 8076632969 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. |  | 9 |
| 8076632970 | 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. |  | 10 |
| 8076632971 | Lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. |  | 11 |
| 8076632972 | Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken. |  | 12 |
| 8076632973 | Monolinguality | Speaking only one language. |  | 13 |
| 8076632974 | Bilinguality | Speaking two languages. |  | 14 |
| 8076632975 | Multilinguality | Speaking several languages. |  | 15 |
| 8076632976 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |  | 16 |
| 8076632977 | 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. |  | 17 |
| 8076632978 | Standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |  | 18 |
| 8076632979 | Toponym | Place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features, and streams. |  | 19 |
| 8076632980 | Anatolian Hypothesis (Sedentary Farmer theory) | Theory argued by Colin Renfrew that Proto-Indo-European language originated with people in present day Turkey and was spread with agricultural practices to Europe and South Asia. | 20 | |
| 8076632981 | Nostratic Hypothesis | Proposed, but still controversial, language family of northern Eurasia | 21 | |
| 8076632982 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages, relative to one region | 22 | |
| 8076632983 | Kurgan Hypothesis (Nomadic Warrior Theory) | Theory arguing that the Proto-Indo-European language originated near Russia and Kazakhstan and diffused due to domesticated horses and chariots establishing military superiority through Europe and South Asia. | 23 | |
| 8076632985 | Trade Language | a restructured language (as a lingua franca or pidgin) used especially in commercial communication. | 24 | |
| 8076645296 | Logogram | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound | 25 | |
| 8076652740 | Romance Language | Any of the languages derived from Latin including Italian, Spanish, French, and Romanian. | 26 | |
| 8076663693 | Sino-Tibetan Language | Family of languages common in East Asia. Mandarin is in this family. | 27 | |
| 8076671015 | Swahili | an Arabic-influenced Bantu language that is spoken widely in eastern and central Africa. Often used as a lingua franca. | 28 | |
| 8076726757 | Standard Language | The British Received Pronunciation (BRP) is an example of how a dialect of a language can be chosen for use in government and and mass communication above other dialects of the same language. | 29 |
