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Vocabulary
Types of Language
Misc.
Languages in countries
Types of Language 2
100
language that is published, widely distributed, and purposefully taught
What is standard language ex: English is, Pig Latin is not
100
A type of european language, includes portaguese, french, italian
What is romance languages
100
set of sounds and symbols used for communication
What is language
100
when a country only has one main language
What is monolingual ex: France
100
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
What is extinct language
200
language for trade and commerce
What is lingua franca
200
A type of european language, includes Dutch, German, English, Danish
What is Germanic Languages
200
English is ___ for commerce, science, travel, business, pop culture
What is linga franca
200
when a country has more than one main language
What is multilingual ex: India
200
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
What is isolated language
300
tracking sound shifts and hardening of consonants backward to reveal an "original" language
What is backward reconstruction
300
A type of european languages, includes Russian, Polish, Ukraine
What is slavic languages
300
breakup of language into dialects and eventually new languages
What is language divergence
300
government selected language to enchance communication
What is official language
300
a set of contiguous dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related
What is dialect chains
400
geographic boundary where a particular linguist feature occurs
What is isogloss ex: y'all in TX
400
2 or more languages combined
What is pidgin language
400
blending of similiar languages into 1
What is language convergence
400
a set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics
What is a language group
400
a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
What is proto-indo-european
500
a place name
What is a toponym
500
native language of a group
What is creole language
500
linkage among languages marked by sound shifts
What is language formation
500
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
What is a language family
500
The core of a pre-Proto-Indo-European language
What is nostratic