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Analogy
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Changes to the language with a desire for uniformity
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Natural Gender
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In English, where all gender is determined by the meaning of the word: in living things,...
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Idiom
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A form of expression peculiar to one language (that, when translated literally, does not make...
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Lingua franca
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a shared language
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Grammatical Gender
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Where every noun has both a meaning and a gender
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Borrowing
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A characteristsic of the English language to assimilate words from other languages into its...
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Upon what does the importance of a language depend?
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Who has the power
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About how many people speak English as a native language?
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380 million
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Which language of the world has the largest number of speakers?
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English
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What are the six largest European languages after English?
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Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, French, and Italian
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Why is English so widely used as a second language?
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Number of speakers and use for international communication
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Which languages are likely to grow most rapidly in the foreseeable future? Why?
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German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. German because it figures prominently...
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Faux amis
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Those words that have different meanings in two different languages
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What are the official languages of the United Nations?
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English, Chinese, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Russian
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For a speaker of another language learning English, what are three assets of the language?
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1) English presents a somewhat familiar appearance to anyone who speaks either a Germanic...
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