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Language
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A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning
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Literary tradition
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A system of written communication
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Official language
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The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
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Dialect
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A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
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Standard language
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A dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication
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British Received Pronunciation (BRP)
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The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom
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Isogloss
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A boundary that separates regions in which different language uses predominate
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Language family
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A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history
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Language branch
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A collection of languages within a language family that are related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago
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Language group
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A collection of languages within a language branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
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Vulgar Latin
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A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents
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Creole or creolized language
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A language that results from the mixing of teh colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
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Ideograms
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Written characters which represent ideas or concepts, not specific pronunciations
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Extinct languages
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Languages that are no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world
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Isolated language
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A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any lanaguage family
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