Language

A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.

• Language family

• Official language

• Syncretism

• Pidgin language

• Lingua franca

A subgroup of a language family, with languages that share a more recent common ancestor.

• language family

• language group

• lingua franca

• literary tradition

• language branch

A___________ has no known historic or linguistic relationship with any other known language

• Isolate or isolated language

• Pidgin language

• Logogram or ideogram

• Language branch

• Extinct language

Languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and have few differences in grammar and vocabulary.

• Language groups

• Dialects

• Language branch

• Assimilation

• Isogloss

____________ is a common language used among speakers of different native languages usually for business or trade.

• Lingua franca

• Pidgin language

• Acculturation

• Creolized language

• Bilinguality

A ______________results from blending of two or more languages that may not include the features of either original language. An example of this is Haitian Creole a blend of french and several African languages.

• Lingua franca

• Creole or Creolized language

• Pidgin language

• Literary tradition

• Monolinguality

A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.

• Extinct language

• Dialect

• Bilinguality

• Official language

• Literary tradition

A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

• Dialect

• Isogloss

• Linguist

• Multilinguality

• Pidgin language

Speaking two languages

• Bilinguality

• Multilinguality

• Monolingualism

• Literary tradition

• Assimilation

A geographic boundary that separates regions with different linguistic features.

• Isogloss

• Linguist

• Lingua franca

• Pidgin language

• Isolated language