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Creole |
A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. |
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Ebonics |
dialect spoken by some African Americans |
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Ideogram |
System of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a sound, as is the case for English. |
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language branch |
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family. |
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language family |
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. |
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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. |
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linguistic fragmentation |
a condition in which many languages are spoken, each by a relatively small number of people |
