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difference between language branch and family

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a language family is related through a common ancestor and are different from each other, language branches are within a family and are more similar to each other

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Ideograms

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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.

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difference between British english and American english and why did they occur

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vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling- isolation

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Dialect

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A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

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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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extinct language

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A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.

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Isogloss

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A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.

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Most Common Afro Asiatic Language

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Arabic

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system used to classify language

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family, branch, group, language, dialect

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multilingual states

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countries in which more than one language is spoken

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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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examples of language groups

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spanish, french, italian

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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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language

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A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.

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three branches of indo european

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Germanic, Romance, Baltic

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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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The two largest language families in the world are

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Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European

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Language groups in Europe

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Germanic, Romance, Slavic

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what languages influence english

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german, french, latin, scandanavian

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What language family does English belong to?

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Indo-European

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monolingual states

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countries in which only one language is spoken

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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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Isolated Language

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A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.

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creolized language

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A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

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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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Ebonics

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a version of English that has its roots in West African, Caribbean, and U.S. slave languages

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How did Indo-European languages diffuse?

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2% of people speak this language

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japanese

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Language Branch

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A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.

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