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| 5767649408 | Language | A system of communication through speech | 0 | |
| 5767650857 | Literary Tradition | System of written communication | 1 | |
| 5767653415 | Protolanguage | A reconstructed ancestral language | 2 | |
| 5767657407 | Language Family | A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history | 3 | |
| 5767663142 | Language Branch | Collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago | 4 | |
| 5767671046 | Language Group | Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar an vocabulary | 5 | |
| 5767683460 | Indo- European Language Family | Largest language family spoken by half the worlds population Includes many European languages and many Asian languages spread by expansion diffusion and then jumped by oceans by relocation diffusion | 6 | |
| 5767702630 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | In china and a few other Asian countries Includes mandarin- the most used language in the world Government imposes mandarin as language | 7 | |
| 5767714037 | Chinese | Written with logograms | 8 | |
| 5767719248 | Austronesian Language | Spoken by 6% of world population mostly indonesia 722 actively used languages in indonesia | 9 | |
| 5767724809 | other Language Families | ASIA Austro- Asiatic- Southeast Asia Tai Kadai Japanese Korean | 10 | |
| 5767780976 | Afro-Asiatic | Arabic- Official language of 12 countries | 11 | |
| 5767784163 | Altaic | Central Asia- includes Turkish- Russians suppressed them in Soviet Union | 12 | |
| 5767789395 | Uralic | Estonia, Finland, Hungary- origin in the Ural Mountains | 13 | |
| 5767793016 | African | Over 1000 languages- most lack writing Niger-Congo: languages spoken by over 95% of Sub-Saharan Africans Nilo-Sahran - north of Niger congo region Khosion- southern africa | 14 | |
| 5767809856 | Protecting Language | important in maintaing local and national cultures Globalization threatens unknown cultures and languages Schools, media contribute to loss of language | 15 | |
| 5767838790 | Lingua Franca | language informally adopted for business and trade | 16 | |
| 5767854604 | Lingua Franca | English- worldwide Swahili- East Africa Hindi- South Asia Indonesia- Southeast Asia Russian- Former Soviet Union | 17 | |
| 5767865104 | Languages for identifying culture | language can be a unifier for groups trying to preserve identity | 18 | |
| 5767868434 | Dialect | Speech variants which reflect the local region in which they are spoken Based on differences in vocabulary and accent Pigdin and Creole languages are simplified mixtures of two or more languages | 19 |
