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| 9964970806 | Accent | the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world | 0 | |
| 9964974589 | Afro- Asiatic language family | A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa, about 250 languages includes semitic languages ,Egyptian - [now extinct]; and is most common in north Africa, northeast Africa, and north parts of central Africa. | 1 | |
| 9964976560 | Antolian/Renfew Hypothesis | he proposed that three areas in and near the first agricultural hearth, the Fertile Crescent, gave rise to three language families: Europe's Indo-European languages (from Anatolia (present-day Turkey)); North African and Arabian languages (from the western arc of the Fertile Crescent); and the languages in present-day Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India (from the eastern arc of the Fertile Crescent) | 2 | |
| 9964976561 | creole | language that results from the th mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated | 3 | |
| 9964976562 | dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | 4 | |
| 9964976614 | dialect chain | A set of contiguous dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related | 5 | |
| 9964981337 | extinct language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. | 6 | |
| 9964981338 | 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. | 7 | |
| 9964981490 | indo european language | A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia, 50% of people on Earth speak this, most of language families. | 8 | |
| 9964983719 | germanic language | (English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) that reflect the expansion of peoples out of Northern Europe to the west and south | 9 | |
| 9964983720 | isogloss | A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs | 10 | |
| 9964983721 | isolated language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family. | 11 | |
| 9964986370 | kurgan hypothesis | The hypothesis that Indo-European speakers reached Europe from the Pontic steppes in the Bronze Age. | 12 | |
| 9964986371 | 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. | 13 | |
| 9964986491 | language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. | 14 | |
| 9964988383 | language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 15 | |
| 9964988384 | 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. | 16 | |
| 9964992335 | language convergence | The collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages; the opposite of language divergence | 17 | |
| 9964992336 | language divergence | The opposite of language convergence; whereby new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of the language and continued isolation eventually causes the division of the language into discrete new languages | 18 | |
| 9964994836 | lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. ex- Swahili | 19 | |
| 9964994837 | literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken; system of written communication. NOT all languages have this. | 20 | |
| 9965010067 | national language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. but it is not the official language. | 21 | |
| 9965010090 | nostratic hypothesis | Language believed to be the ancestral language not only of Proto-Indo-European, but also of the Kartvelian languages of the of the southern Caucasus region, the Uralic-Altaic languages (including Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, and Mongolian), | 22 | |
| 9965013426 | official language | in multilingual countries the language selected, often by the educated and politically powerful elite, to promote internal cohesion; | 23 | |
| 9965013427 | pidgin | 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. | 24 | |
| 9965013428 | polygot | knowing or using several languages | 25 | |
| 9965015592 | romance languages | The part of indo-european family; Is clustered in southwestern Europe and Latin America (french, Spanish, Italian) | 26 | |
| 9965015593 | sino-tibetan language | A language composed of the Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages. 20% of people speak these languages . | 27 | |
| 9965015716 | slang | an informal, often short-lived kind of language used in place of standard words. yo = hello cuz = because | 28 | |
| 9965017878 | slavic languages | Languages (Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian) that developed as Slavic people migrated from a base in present-day Ukraine close to 2000 years ago | 29 | |
| 9965017879 | standard language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 30 | |
| 9965017880 | trade language | A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other. | 31 | |
| 9965022961 | toponym | the name by which a geographical place is known | 32 | |
| 9965022962 | vernacular | the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | 33 |
