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Language Fill In The Blanks

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Question: Bilinguality Answer: Speaking two
Question: Creole (or ) language Answer: A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the language of the people being dominated.
Question: Answer: A regional variety of a language distinguished by , spelling, and pronunciation
Question: language Answer: A that was once use by people in daily activities but is no longer used
Question: Indo- Answer: Language family including the germanic and romance languages that is spoken by 50% of the world's people
Question: Answer: A that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
Question: language Answer: A language that is unrelated to any languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
Question: Answer: A of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
Question: Language Answer: A collection of languages related through a ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with languages families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family
Question: Language Answer: A collection of languages related to each other a common ancestor long before recorded history.
Question: group Answer: A collection of languages within a branch that a common origin in relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
Question: Lingua Answer: A language mutually understood and commonly used in by people who have different native languages
Question: Answer: who studies language
Question: tradition Answer: A language that is written as well as
Question: /ideogramAnswer: A symbol that a word rather than a sound
Question: Answer: only one language
Question: Multilinguality Answer: several languages
Question: language Answer: The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of and publication of documents.
Question: language Answer: A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of lingua franca, used for communications speakers of two different languages.
Question: Answer: Where people within one culture adopt some of the traits of another while still their own distinct culture.
Question: Answer: Is a category of acculturation in which the interaction of two cultures results in one adopting almost ALL of the customs, traditions, language, and other culture traits of the other. An individual or group that has fully assimilated into a culture will be indistinguishable socially and culturally from others in the culture.
Question: Answer: Sometimes traits from two or more cultures blend together to form a new custom, idea, value, or practice. This process of innovation combining different cultural features into something new is called syncretism. Cultural syncretism is an effect of diffusion that can occur through circumstances such as military conquest, marriages between groups, and others. The result is a combination of two cultures to create new , values or practices.
 
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