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Question | Answer |
accent | the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world |
Esperanto | a made-up Latin-based language, which its European proponents in the early twentieth century hoped would become a global language |
extinct language | a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used |
isolated language | a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family |
lingua franca | a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different languages |
orthography | the study of where languages are found/located |
pidgin | 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 |
toponym | the name by which a geographical place is known |
trade language | a language used by native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so they can trade with each other |
vernacular | the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) |
language | a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning |
literary tradition | a system of written communication |
official language | one language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps |
dialect | a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation |
isogloss | a word-usage boundary |
standard language | a dialect that is well-established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication |
language family | a collection of languages related to a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history (e.g. Indo-European) |
language branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed thousands of years ago |
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 |
ideograms | characters that represent ideas or concepts, not specific pronunciations |
mono-linguality | speaking only one language |
bi-linguality | speaking two languages |
multi-linguality | speaking several languages |
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