Neoglocalism
conscious effort by businesses to foster a sense of place based on attributes of their country
Vigorous Language
language is in vigorous use, with literature in a standardised form being used by some though it is not yet widespread or sustainable
Vulgar Latin
A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
pidgin language
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
Ideogram
a pictorial character or symbol that represents a specific meaning or idea
Terroir
The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes
Language Branch
A collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. That evolved into individual languages.
Protolanguage
a hypothetical undocumented parent language from which actual languages are derived.
Language Groups
collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past