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21 Cards in this Set
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Slavic languages
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Polish Russian Bulgarian
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Germanic languages
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Swedish English Dutch
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Romance languages
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Spanish Romanian French
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Indo-Arian languages
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Hindi Romany (gypsy language) Farsi (spoken in Iran)
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Celtic languages
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Welsh Irish Breton (Spoken in Brittany, France)
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Semitic languages
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Arabic Hebrew
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Austronesian languages
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Malay Tagalog (spoken in Philippines), Maori (spoken in New Zealand)
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syntax
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grammar and word order
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modality
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expressed by modals words; possibility and necessity
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phonology
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pronunciation and intonation
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phoneme
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smallest sound unit that carries meaning
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diphthongs
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sounds made by combining vowels such as ae ei
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lexicon
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technical term for vocabulary
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orthography
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technical term for writing system
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English alphabet has 26...
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characters (symbols e.i. letters)
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pictogram
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characters (symbols e.i. letters) representing pictures
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ideogram
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characters (symbols e.i. letters) representing ideas/concepts
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morphology
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how words are formed
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morphemes
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units of meaning (in unthinkable: un-think-able)
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inflected
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words have endings to show tense, person, etc.
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isolating
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each word has only one morpheme
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