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| 11492151295 | Accent | a way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker | 0 | |
| 11492154149 | Creole | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated (EX french-based haitian creole) | 1 | |
| 11492181786 | Denglish | combination of german and english dialect distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation | 2 | |
| 11492193337 | Dialect | a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group (EX southern dialect) | 3 | |
| 11492199929 | Ebonics | african american black english regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard english | 4 | |
| 11492209275 | Esperanto | a made-up latin-based language, which its european proponents in the early twentieth century hoped would become a global language | 5 | |
| 11492218577 | Extinct Language | a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used, no native speakers (EX native american languages) | 6 | |
| 11492231930 | Franglais | the widespread use of english in the french language, a term used by the french for english words that have entered the french language, a combination of french and english | 7 | |
| 11492242140 | 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 |  | 8 |
| 11492252564 | Isogloss | a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs (EX different parts of the US having different common names for a soft drink) |  | 9 |
| 11492276145 | Isolated Language | a language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family (EX Basque) | 10 | |
| 11492286926 | Language Branch | a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago (EX Germanic) | 11 | |
| 11492307150 | 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 (EX English) | 12 | |
| 11492312036 | 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 (EX West/North Germanic) | 13 | |
| 11492329922 | Language Family | a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history, fairly distant origin (EX Indo European) | 14 | |
| 11492339581 | Lingua Franca | a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages (EX English or Mandarin) | 15 | |
| 11492357299 | Literary Tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken | 16 | |
| 11492363271 | Monolingual | speaking or writing only one language | 17 | |
| 11492368513 | Bilingual | able to speak two different languages | 18 | |
| 11492374570 | Multi-Lingual | speaking more than two languages | 19 | |
| 11492399870 | Pidgin Language | when parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary (EX hawaiian pidgin english) | 20 | |
| 11492417184 | Spanglish | combination of spanish and english, spoken by hispanic-americans | 21 | |
| 11492422715 | Standard Language | the variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life | 22 | |
| 11492427092 | Toponym | the name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | 23 | |
| 11492430271 | Trade Language | a language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other (EX English) | 24 | |
| 11492443328 | Vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region | 25 | |
| 11526772586 | Institutional Language | a language used in education, work, mass media, and government. | 26 | |
| 11526775988 | Official Language | the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents even though not all people may speak it | 27 | |
| 11526778532 | Developing Language | language used daily for face-to-face communication, includes a standard written expression, but not used by people all the time | 28 | |
| 11526788533 | Vigorous Language | a language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition | 29 | |
| 11562202007 | Orthography | the conventional spelling system of a language, including grammar rules and common spellings | 30 |
