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| 8160333665 | Language Divergence | when languages go into dialects because language isn't common in forming new ones. EX- French and Spanish in 2000 | 0 | |
| 8160344317 | Language Convergence | adjusting your speech to make it more clear for others/two languages coming together Ex- slowing down speech to make one language like another | 1 | |
| 8160356504 | Language Branch | smaller languages of a main language Ex- Celtic, Slavic, Romance | 2 | |
| 8160369084 | Language Group (Sub-Family) | a set of languages that have a relatively recent and close origin Ex- English-North American | 3 | |
| 8160380750 | Language Family | a group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin Ex- Indo-European | 4 | |
| 8160389157 | Dialect | a particular form of a language that is strange to an area or region Ex- Hawaiian Pidgin English | 5 | |
| 8160396458 | Pidgin | a language that shifts a slurred speaking of a language. a simpler langauge. Ex- Hawaiian Pidgin English | 6 | |
| 8160402415 | Creole (Creolization) | an ethnic group that is made by Europeans and non-Europeans Ex- Haiti speaks French Creole | 7 | |
| 8160412228 | Language | a set of sounds and symbols used for communication | 8 | |
| 8160420193 | Multilingual | knowing more than 2 languages | 9 | |
| 8160424357 | Bilingual | knowing only 2 languages | 10 | |
| 8160430727 | Monolingual | knowing only 1 language | 11 | |
| 8160442754 | Language Hotspots | places on Earth that are home to the most unique, misunderstood or endangered languages Ex-Australia | 12 | |
| 8160453895 | Ethnolect | dialect spoken by a certain ethnic group Ex: New Englanders | 13 | |
| 8160463633 | Slang | A type of informal language that is made into more common speech Ex- Lol and Lmao | 14 | |
| 8160471702 | Trade Language | a language used between native speakers at different languages so they can trade Ex; these often become pidgins | 15 | |
| 8160487380 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business | 16 | |
| 8160498474 | Toponymy | the name by which a place is known as | 17 | |
| 8160504136 | Esperanto | a made-up Latin-based language. artificial language used for communication. | 18 | |
| 8160510492 | Conquest Theory of Language | One major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe which holds that the early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tongues | 19 | |
| 8160533938 | Renfrew Hypothesis of Language | three areas in and near the first agricultural hearth-same birth to 3 languages | 20 | |
| 8160541759 | Standard Language | a language that is approved as the norm Ex- English in Colchester | 21 | |
| 8160558807 | Polyglot | a person who speaks more than two languages EX- a 4-year old Russian girl who speaks many languages | 22 | |
| 8160572715 | Isogloss | a boundary that separates regions where different languages are predominant Ex- line between English and Spanish speakers | 23 | |
| 8160604053 | Sound Shift | a slight change in a word across languages within a subfamily Ex-theatre and theater | 24 | |
| 8160621942 | Deep Reconstruction | technique using the vocab of extra languages to re-create the language Ex- Proto-Indo-European and Nostratic languages | 25 | |
| 8160649443 | Preliterate Societies | people who speak and hear a language, but do not write it, Ex- You can speak and hear Chinese, but can't write the symbols | 26 | |
| 8160660647 | Linguistic Refuge Areas | an area protected by isolation or conditions in which a dialect has survived Ex- tribes on weeds | 27 | |
| 8160687323 | Language Replacement (Extinction) | getting rid of a language and replacing it with another | 28 | |
| 8160697160 | Proto-Indo-European | linguistic programs;the existence of ancient Indo-European languages Ex- Hearth for Latin, Greek, etc. | 29 | |
| 8160715019 | Nostratic | language believed to be the ancestral language of the Proto-Indo-European, Karlevelin languages Ex- Hungarian, Turkish, etc. | 30 |
