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Official Language

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The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.

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Standard Language

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The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.

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Language Group

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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.

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Vernacular

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Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people.

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Toponym

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a place name or a word derived from the name of a place

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Multilingual

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The ability to speak multiple languages

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Language Family

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A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

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Franglais

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a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English.

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Orthography

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The conventional spelling system of a language.

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Extinct Language

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An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use.

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Indo European language family

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Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia.

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Bilingual

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The ability to speak two languages

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Denglish

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The term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German.

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Spanglish

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a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions.

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Ideogram

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A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six)

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Isogloss

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A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs.

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Pidgin Language

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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.

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Lingua Franca

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A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

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Sino-Tibetan Language Family

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2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese

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Isolated Language

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a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language.

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Language

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The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.

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Monolingual

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The condition of being able to speak only a single language

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Dialect

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A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group.

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Esperanto

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An artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages.

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Trade Language

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A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade.

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Literary Tradition

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A Language that is written as well as spoken

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Ebonics

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American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English

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Language Branch

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A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family.

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Creole

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a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage

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Accent

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A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.

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