Linguistic Terms
study of the origins of words
etymology
B
Bravo
radio user name
Handle
invented by Zamenhof
Esperanto
simple body language
gestures
Ancient Egyptian alphabet
hieroglyphs
a variation of a language
dialect
P
Papa
"Message Received"
Roger
Star Trek
Klingon
series of gestures
pantomime
Cyrillic
syntax
H
Hotel
two letters that start American radio stations
W & K
Lord of the Rings
Elvish
how people stand or sit
posture
images represent what they depict
pictogram
language with little to no grammar
pidgin
I
India
long distance
DX
Avatar
Na'vi
visual communication with flags
semaphore
reading from left to right then right to left
boustrophedon
basic unit of sound
phoneme
Y
Yankee
"What is your location?"
QTH
Game of Thrones
Dothraki
universal sign language
Gestuno
system with no vowels
abjad