HUGO UNIT 3 SET 3 VOCAB

Dialect

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

Endangered language

A language that is no longer taught to children by their parents and is not used for everyday conversation.

Extinct language

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

Indo-European language family

Family of languages with the greatest number of speakers, spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of southwestern and southern Asia.

Isogloss

A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.

Isolated language

A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.

Language

A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.

Language branch

A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence.

Language family

A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.

Language group

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

Official language

The exclusive language adopted by the government for the conduct of business, publication of documents, and communication with citizens.

Pidgin language

A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a common language, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.

Standard language

The common form of a language used in a population for cultural, social, and economic purposes