| A | B |
|---|
| English | has 2,000,000 words |
| Ebonics | a specialized dialect used by African Americans |
| Nusha | a Chinese dialect taught only to women |
| Pidgin | a simplified language used by people who have no language in common |
| word | one or more sounds that have meaning from language |
| North Americans | use 800-1000 English words in everyday conversation |
| Creole | a Pidgin language becomes this when it lasts so long it becomes the principle language |
| phonology | the study of sounds |
| phoneme | the smallest unit of sound |
| dialect | a variant of a language |
| paralanguage | all non-spoken communication methods |
| kinesics | essentially body language |
| hypothesis | an educated guess or theory |
| anthropology | the study of people |
| proxemics | the study of culturally defined uses of space |
