Appetizer Project

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