KBAT Unit 3 Pt. 2!

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Creole

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Interactions between cultures can result in two or more cultural elements blending together.

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Dialect

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Variation of a standard language specific to a general area.

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Extinct Language

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Language that once existed but is no longer in use today.

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Indo-European

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A diverse language family that includes most of the languages of Europe and many languages of South and Southwest Asia, ranging from Hindi to German.

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Isogloss

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A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate

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Isolated Language

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Has no known historic or linguistic relationship with any other known language.

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Language Branch

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A group of languages that came from a similar language within the last few thousand years.

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Language Family

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Largest grouping of related languages and includes those languages that share a common ancestral language from a particular hearth or origin.

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Language Group

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Languages within a branch that share a common ancestor in the relatively recent past and have vocabularies with a high degree of overlap.

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Lingua franca

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A common language used among speakers of different languages