A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
Language Family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
Isolated Language
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
Standard Language
The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Language Branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same fam
Language Group
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
Terrior
the contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes
Literary Tradition
Language that is written as well as spoken
Creole
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
