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8658646442Accent0
8658647112Anatolian Hypothesis1
8658647113CreoleA language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with indigenous languag of people being dominated2
8658647954DialectA regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary,spelling, and pronunciation3
8658647962Extinct LanguageA language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used4
8658651216IdeogramSystem of writing used in china and other east asian countries which each symbol represents idea or concept5
8658651884Indo European6
8658652911Nostratic Hypothesis7
8658653694IsoglossA boundary that seperates regions in which in different languages usages predominate8
8658654826Isolated LanguageA language that is unrelated to any other languages and there fore not attached to any language family9
8658656515Kurgan Hypothesis10
8658656554LanguageCommunication through use of speech , collection of sounds understood by a group to have the same meaning11
8658657607Language branchCollection of languages related to common ancestor that excisted12
8658658396Language familyA collection of languages related to eachother. Through a common ancestor that exsisted long before record history13
8658659219Language groupLangauages within a branch that share a common orgin in relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammer and vocabularu14
8658659738Lingua FrancaA langiage mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages15
8658660359Literary traditionA language that is written as well as spoken16
8658661713Mono bi multi linguality17
8658662735National language18
8658663785Official LanguageLanguage adopted for use by government for conduct if business and publication of documents19
8658665060Orthography20
8658665860PidginForm of speech that adopts simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca21
8658666728Polyglot22
8658667478Slang23
8658667522Standard LanguageThe form of a language used for official government buisness,education, and mass communications24
8658669818Syntax25
8658669819ToponymThe name goven to a portion of earths surface26
8658671259Trade Language27
8658671296VernacularAn area that people believe as part of their cultural identity28
8658678395Vocabulary29

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