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Language

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Bilinguality   Speaking two languages  
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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.  
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Dialect   A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation  
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Extinct language   A language that was once use by people in daily activities but is no longer used  
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Indo- European   Language family including the germanic and romance languages that is spoken by about 50% of the world's people  
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Isogloss   A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate  
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Isolated language   A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.  
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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  
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Language branch   A collection of languages related through a common 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  
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Language family   A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.  
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Language group   A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary  
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Lingua franca   A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages  
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Linguist   Scientist who studies language  
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Literary tradition   A language that is written as well as spoken  
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Logogram/ideogram   A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound  
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Monolinguality   Speaking only one language  
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Multilinguality   Speaking several languages  
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Official language   The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.  
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Pidgin language   A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.  
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Acculturation   Where people within one culture adopt some of the traits of another while still retaining their own distinct culture.  
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Assimilation   Is a category of acculturation in which the interaction of two cultures results in one culture 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.  
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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.  
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