Language family including the germanic and romance languages that is spoken by about 50% of the world's people
Bilinguality
Speaking two languages
Language
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
Creole (or creolized) language
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Syncretism
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 ideas, values or practices.
Isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
Literary tradition
A language that is written as well as spoken
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Monolinguality
Speaking only one language
Official language
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
