Language

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An institutional language is used in education, work, mass media, and government. It has ______, which means it is written as well as spoken.

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Literary Tradition

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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 Family

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English comes from the _______, language family

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Indo-European

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A collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed thousands of years ago

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Language Branch

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A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary

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Language Group

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The world’s most widely spoken language family is…

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Indo-European

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Early language families spread through…

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Relocation Diffusion

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A language mutually understood and commonly used to communicate by people who have different native languages…

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Lingua Franca

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Today, _____ is the leading Lingua Franca…

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English

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Symbols that represent words, or meaningful parts of words…

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Logograms