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| 8205410278 | Language | A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds a group of people understands to have the same meaning. | 0 | |
| 8205416253 | Literary Tradition | System of written communication | 1 | |
| 8205419291 | Official Language | Used by government for laws, reports, and public objects such as road signs, money, stamps(some may have more than one) | 2 | |
| 8205426629 | Dialect | A regional variation of a language, distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | 3 | |
| 8205438903 | Standard Language | Dialect recognized as most acceptable for government, business, education, mass communication | 4 | |
| 8205440779 | Isogloss | Word-usage boundaries, shows which words/phrases are unique to particular regions, | 5 | |
| 8205449194 | Isolation | uninfluenced linguistic development | 6 | |
| 8205456036 | 57 countries have what language as official language? | English | 7 | |
| 8205735632 | German Invasion | Celtic dominated until 450 AD(Angles, Jutes, Saxons) | 8 | |
| 8205740862 | Norman Invasion | 1066 AD - French Speaking Normans | 9 | |
| 8205748656 | British Received Pronunciation | Standard Language in England | 10 | |
| 8205754641 | Differences between British And American English | Vocabulary, Spelling, Pronunciation | 11 | |
| 8205759617 | Dialects regions in the US | Northern, Midlands, Southern | 12 | |
| 8205764599 | Southeastern | 1/2 from SE England diverse social classes (Deported prisoners, indentured servants, refugees) | 13 | |
| 8205774612 | Middle Atlantic | Quakers from northern England, Scots, and Irish | 14 | |
| 8256598393 | Romance Languages | French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian | 15 | |
| 8256717180 | Indo-European Branches | Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Albanian, Armenian, Greek, Celtic | 16 | |
| 8256717181 | North Germanic languages | Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | 17 | |
| 8256717182 | West Germanic Languages | English, German, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans | 18 | |
| 8256717183 | East Germanic | Extinct | 19 | |
| 8256717184 | Indic Group | India, Pakistan, Bangladesh | 20 | |
| 8256717185 | Iranian Group | Persian/Farsi, Pashto, Kurdish | 21 | |
| 8256717186 | East Slavic and Baltic Groups | Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusen | 22 | |
| 8256717187 | West/South Slavic Groups | Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian | 23 | |
| 8256717188 | Nomadic Warrior Thesis | Taking over people | 24 | |
| 8256717189 | Sedentary Farmer Thesis | Agriculture outgrew others | 25 | |
| 8256717190 | Sino-Tibetan Family | Mandarin the most spoken language in this family( China and SE Asia) | 26 | |
| 8256717191 | Austronesian | Indonesia, Malagasy in Madagascar | 27 | |
| 8256717192 | Austro-Asiatic | Vietnam, Tai-Kadai, Japanese, Korean | 28 | |
| 8256717193 | Afro-Asiatic | Arabic and Hebrew | 29 | |
| 8256717194 | Altaic languages | A language family that includes Turkish | 30 | |
| 8256717195 | Uralic languages | Includes Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian. | 31 |
