Types of Language
This type of language is used in work, education, mass media, and government.
What is an Institutional Language?
This is the replacement of local identity with a homogeneous or uniformed landscapes.
What is Placeness?
This is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language.
What are Language Families?
This type of language is in daily use by people of all ages.
What is a Developing Language?
This is the adaptation to globalized products to fit local context.
What is Glocalization?
This is a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language and evolved into individual languages. Differences are not as significant or as old as between families.
What are Language Branches?
This type of language is in daily use by people of all ages, but it lacks a literary tradition.
What is a Vigorous Language?
This is a return to local or regional foods and drink products
What is Neolocalism?
This is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display similar grammar and vocabulary.
What are Language Groups?
This type of language is used for face-to-face communication, but is losing users.
What is a Threatened Language?
This type of language is used by older people, but is not being transmitted to children.
What is a Dying Language?