Linguistic Terms
NATO Alphabet
Ham Radio
Conlangs
Non-Verbal
Writing Systems
100

study of the origins of words

etymology

100

Bravo

100

radio user name

Handle

100

invented by Zamenhof

Esperanto

100

simple body language

gestures

100

Ancient Egyptian alphabet

hieroglyphs

200

a variation of a language

dialect

200

Papa

200

"Message Received"

Roger

200

Star Trek

Klingon

200

series of gestures

pantomime

200
alphabet used in Russian

Cyrillic

300
order of words in a sentence

syntax

300

H

Hotel

300

two letters that start American radio stations

W & K

300

Lord of the Rings

Elvish

300

how people stand or sit

posture

300

images represent what they depict

pictogram

400

language with little to no grammar

pidgin

400

I

India

400

long distance

DX

400

Avatar

Na'vi

400

visual communication with flags

semaphore

400

reading from left to right then right to left

boustrophedon

500

basic unit of sound

phoneme

500

Y

Yankee

500

"What is your location?"

QTH

500

Game of Thrones

Dothraki

500

universal sign language

Gestuno

500

system with no vowels

abjad