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3431596325 | Anglo~American landscape | region in u.s. which English is main language | 0 | |
3431599807 | taboo | social custom forbidding particular practice | 1 | |
3431603206 | kosher | genuine and legitimate | 2 | |
3431608338 | dowry | property or money brought by bride to her husband on their marriage | 3 | |
3431615565 | uniform landscape | spatial expression of a popular custom in one location similar to another | 4 | |
3431622764 | adaptive strategies | changed, mix of productive activities | 5 | |
3431627061 | language | method of human communication. consisting of the use of words in structured and conventional way | 6 | |
3431634845 | literary tradition | language that's written as well as spoken | 7 | |
3431637501 | official language | language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business | 8 | |
3431647464 | dialect | practicular form of a language that's peculiar to a specific region or social group | 9 | |
3431654417 | isogloss | a line on a dialect map making the boundary between linguistic features | 10 | |
3431660618 | standard language | a language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse | 11 | |
3431667492 | language family | collection of languages that come from the same roots | 12 | |
3431670546 | language branch | group of languages that relate to family | 13 | |
3431674097 | language group | collection of language that is related to language branch | 14 | |
3431682334 | Indo-eroupean language | a large, widespread family of languages in the same tree | 15 | |
3431685725 | creole | native language mixes with another language | 16 | |
3431692102 | nomadic warrior thesis | 1st pronto indoeuropean speakers where the kurgans near the border | 17 | |
3431730887 | sedentary farmer thesis | 2000 years ago before the kurgans the first indoeuropean speakers lived I. east anatodia | 18 | |
3431738781 | ideograms | a written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it | 19 | |
3431741613 | language tree | model or graphic picture used to show the historic relationship between different language | 20 | |
3431764084 | extinct languages | language no longer spoken | 21 | |
3431765811 | monolingual | speaking only one language | 22 | |
3431767823 | multilingual | more than one language is spoken | 23 | |
3431770200 | isolated language | has no relationship to any other language | 24 | |
3431771848 | lingua franca | a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different | 25 | |
3431771849 | trade language | special language used for trade | 26 | |
3431774794 | Ebonics | American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English. | 27 | |
3431774795 | pidgin language | denoting a simplified form of a language, especially as used by a nonnative | 28 | |
3431778343 | Spanglish | language combining words from Spanish and English | 29 | |
3431788387 | toponymy | the study of place names | 30 |