Types of Language
What is Language?
Language Organization
100

This language is used in work, government, and education.

What is an Institutional Language?

100

This is a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.

What is Language?

100

A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display similar grammar and vocabulary.

What is a Language Group?

200

A Language used by older people and isn't being transmitted to children

What is a dying language?

200

Logographic, Syllabic, Alphabetic, and Featural are all examples of what?

What are Principal Writing Systems?

200

A Collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language and evolved into individual languages.

What is a Language Branch?

300

This language is used daily by people of all ages, but it lacks a literary tradition.

What is a Vigorous Language?

300

This refers to a system of written communication.

What is Literary Tradition?

300

A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history

What is a Language Family?

400

This language is used for face-to-face communication, but is losing users.

What is a Threatened Language?

400

Many countries designate at least one of these to be used for official documents and public objects

What is an Official Language?

400

A designated by an international organization or corporation as its primary means of communication for daily correspondence and conversation

What is a working Language?

500

This is a new language in daily use by people of all ages.

What is a developing Language?

500

It estimates that the world has 6,909 languages. However, a certain amount are spoken by at least 100 million people.

What is 11 main Languages?

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