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Language

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Bilinguality   show
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show 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   show
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Extinct language   show
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show Language family including the germanic and romance languages that is spoken by about 50% of the world's people  
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show A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate  
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Isolated language   show
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show 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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show 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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show A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.  
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Language group   show
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show A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages  
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show Scientist who studies language  
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Literary tradition   show
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Logogram/ideogram   show
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Monolinguality   show
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show Speaking several languages  
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show The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.  
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show 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   show
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Assimilation   show
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show 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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