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