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Accent
a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
Dialect
a regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation; also a form of a language spoken by members of a particular social class or profession
Esperanto
an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languages
Extinct Language
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
Ideogram
symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word
Isolated Language
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
Official Language
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
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.
Toponym
place name
Vernacular
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
Creole Language
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Language Branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
Language
a system of words used in a particular discipline
Language Group
a set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics
Language Family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.