| A | B |
|---|
| language | system of communication |
| literary tradition | system of written communication |
| official language | one used by the gvt for laws, reports, etc |
| dialects | regional variation of a language distinguished by a distinctive vocab, spelling and pronunciations |
| Ebonics and Appalachian | distinct US dialects |
| isogloss | word usage boundary |
| language family | collection of language related through a common ancestral language that existed before recorded history |
| language branch | collection of languages related through common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago |
| language group | collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past |
| pidgin | 2 languages meet and create a hodgepodge |
| creole/creolized language | language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with indigenous language |
| Nomadic Warrior thesis | language spread through conquering and war |
| Anatolian Hearth theory | agricultural people spread language through trade and migration |
| language extinction | loss of language |
| revived languages | languages on the verge of extinction, but make a come back |
| isolated languages | language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family |
| Basque | Pyrennes; border Spain and France |
| lingua franca | language of international communication |
