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| 8673641438 | accent | a style of pronunciation | 0 | |
| 8673649840 | Anatolian hypothesis | Indo-European originated in Anatolia around 7,000 BCE | 1 | |
| 8673652125 | creole | American born descendants of Europeans | 2 | |
| 8673653970 | dialect | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | 3 | |
| 8673658067 | extinct language | language without any native speakers | 4 | |
| 8673660303 | ideogram | symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word | 5 | |
| 8673664227 | indo-european | largest language family | 6 | |
| 8673678085 | nostratic hypothesis | a hypothetical language family that is hypothesized to have given rise to the Eurasian languages | 7 | |
| 8673680127 | isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | 8 | |
| 8673682959 | isolated language | language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any family | 9 | |
| 8673685470 | kurgan hypothesis | The Proto-Indo-European language diffused from modern day Ukraine through conquest. | 10 | |
| 8673688021 | language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | 11 | |
| 8673690384 | language branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestor | 12 | |
| 8673692387 | language family | a group of similar languages | 13 | |
| 8673694824 | language group | set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics | 14 | |
| 8673696761 | lingua franca | a common language used among people with different native languages | 15 | |
| 8673700163 | literary tradition | a language that is written as well as spoken | 16 | |
| 8673704392 | mono language | can speak 1 language | 17 | |
| 8673714247 | bi liguality | can speak 2 languages | 18 | |
| 8673717512 | multi linguality | can speak many languages | 19 | |
| 8673722601 | national languages | language with official status at a national level | 20 | |
| 8673727397 | official language | the required language of instruction in schools, government business, courts, etc | 21 | |
| 8673729892 | orthography | correct spelling | 22 | |
| 8673733361 | pidgin | a simplified form of speech developed from two or more languages | 23 | |
| 8673737188 | polyglot | multi-linguist | 24 | |
| 8673739629 | slang | informal language | 25 | |
| 8673741593 | standard language | the accepted norms of syntax, vocabulary, and pronunciation | 26 | |
| 8673744380 | syntax | sentence structure | 27 | |
| 8673746832 | toponym | place name | 28 | |
| 8673749554 | trade language | a common language that emerges when countries trade with each other | 29 | |
| 8673752239 | vernacular | everyday language | 30 | |
| 8673752242 | vocabulary | a language user's knowledge of words | 31 |