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Language

Communication system that groups of people understand in the same meaning

Official Language
The language used by a country's government Dialect Regional variation of language Pronunciation, spelling, or word might differ Ideograms Letters that represent ideas or concepts
e.g.) Hieroglyph, Hanzi (Chinese), Kanji (Japanese)

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Language family
Common ancestors existed before recorded history

Language branch
Common ancestors existed several thousand years ago

Language group
Common ancestors / origin existed in recent history

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History and conquest

Colonization of Britain: many places use English

Isolation or integration
Japan, Papua New Guinea: isolated islands

Migration
Migrants lead to diffusion of language to the new place

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Economic domination Influence of wealth and technology Political division

Quebec and Wales

Physical geographic barriers

Mountain range in between two places

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Extinct Language
Language which nobody speaks

Isolated Language
Language used in isolated society Poor, less-educated people speak Ebonic English (NY) Cockney English (Britain)

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Cockney slang
English dialect Rhyming slang

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Lingua Franca
Universal languages that are understood globally People from two different language background use to communicate e.g.) English, French, Spanish

Pidgin Language
Simplified, broken Lingua Franca

Dialects
Ebonics
Dialect of Afro Americans who escaped from racism in the southern USA. They wanted to preserve their accents

Franglais
Hybrid of English and French

Spanglish
Hybrid of English and Spanish