W-GEO CH5 VOCAB
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Institutional language
A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.
Stable language
A language that is used for face-to-face communication within all generations, including children.
Endangered language
A language that is endangered or dying because it is losing users and may not be retained by the younger generation.
Language family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
Language branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence.
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.
Lingua franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
Creole (or creolized) language
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
