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| dialect |
A form of a language that is spoken in a local area is called |
| English is a part of what language family, branch, and group |
IndoEuropean familyGermanic BranchWest Germanic group |
| Romance Languages |
French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese |
| creole |
a language that results from mixing the colonizer's language with the indigenous people being dominated. french creole in Haiti, papiamento in Netherland or portuguese creole in Cape Verde |
| Colin Renfrow Anatolian Hearth Theory |
The first ProtoIndoEuropean speakers lived in eastern Anatolia 2000 years before the Kurgans. They diffused westward towards Greece then Italy then west again to France, Spain, Portugal then north to British Isles. |
| Language spoken by the most native speakers |
mandarin |
| ideogram and a language that uses them |
represent ideas or concepts not specific pronunciations used in Chinese |
| lingua franca |
A language of international communication, examples include Russian in the former Soviet Union, Swahili in East Africa and English in many countries for business reasons |
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