Vocabulary
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| show | The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London; Considered the standard English of the UK.
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| show | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
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| show | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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| show | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relative recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
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| show | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
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| show | The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as in the case with English letters.
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| show | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
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| show | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
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| show | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications
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