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Vocabulary for Language Issues

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Term
Definition
el castellano   Spanish, spoken in Spain  
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el catalán   Catalan, spoken in Catalonia, Valencia, Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca, Andorra and L'Alguer in Italy.  
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Cataluña   Catalonia  
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Los Países Catalanes   Overarching term for the Catalan-speaking, or Catalan-identifying regions  
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Euskera, el vasco   Basque  
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Euskal Herria   Basque for "The Basque Country"  
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El País Vasco   Regional boundaries vary, but usually "The Basque Country", Navarra, and parts of Southern France are included in this term.  
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el gallego   Galician, spoken in north-west Spain.  
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Galicia   region and province in north-west Spain, above Portugal  
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Aymara, Aimará   Aymara, a native language of Bolivia  
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Náhuatl   A native language of Mexico  
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Quechua   A native language spoken across Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru  
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Mapuche   A native language spoken in Chile and Argentina  
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Guaraní   A native language spoken in Paraguay and Argentina  
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caló   A gypsy language spoken by the Romany in Spain and Portugal  
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el árabe   Arabic, an influence on most Iberian (Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Galician) languages  
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el latín   Latin, an influence on most Iberian languages  
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lenguas romances   Romance Languages (languages that derive from Latin)  
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el aranés   Aranese, spoken in the Val d'Aran region of Catalonia. All education there teaches Spanish, Catalan AND Aranese.  
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la lengua, el idioma   language  
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la lengua   tongue  
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la lengua materna   mother tongue  
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el lenguaje corporal   body language  
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el lenguaje de gestos   sign language  
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las lenguas amerindias   Native American languages (including Mapuche, Quechua etc.)  
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los fenómenos lingüisticos   linguistic phenomena  
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el spanglish   Spanglish  
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el lenguaje de los jovenes   youth language  
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la pronunciación   pronunciation  
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la ortografia   spelling  
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el dialecto   dialect  
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la jerga coloquial   jargon  
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el argot   slang  
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la procedencia   origin  
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prevenir   to come from  
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las lenguas minoritarias   minority languages  
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fomentar   to promote, to encourage  
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lengua oficial   official language  
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lengua cooficial   co-official language  
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monolingüismo, monolingüe   monolingualism, monolingual  
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bilingüismo, bilingüe   bilingualism, bilingual  
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plurilingüe   multilingual  
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bilingüismo aditivo   When you learn to speak a second language and it benefits you (and you speak it as well as your first)  
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bilingüismo sustractivo   When you speak one language for socioeconomic reasons, but it harms your mother tongue (e.g. moving to France, speaking only French, and forgetting "how to English")  
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codificación   codification, setting of rules and standards  
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estándar   standard  
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corpus   what a language is made out of  
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educación bilingüe   bilingual education  
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estandardización   standardisation  
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inmersión   immersion  
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inmersión a doble via   immersion where both languages aren't the first language (e.g. the child of an African immigrant in Spain has to learn Spanish and Catalan in equal amounts.)  
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lengua agrafa   A language spoken and not written (usually a native minority language, e.g. Cornish before the 1970s)  
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Academia de la Lengua Vasca, Euskaltzaindia   The body which standardises the Basque Language  
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Real Academia Española, la RAE   The body which standardises the Spanish Language  
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Institut d'Estudis Catalans, L'IEC   The body which standardises the Catalan Language  
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Academia Valenciana de la Lengua   The body which standardises the Valencian dialect of Catalan  
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Institut Ramon Llull   The body which provides Catalan education and promotes Catalan internationally  
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Real Academia Gallega   The body which standardises the Galician language  
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ikastolas   clandestine schools in the Basque country which taught children Basque during the Franco regime  
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leyes de normalización   Laws passed in the 1980s declaring certain languages co-official in Spain, particularly Catalan  
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castellanohablante   Spanish-speaking  
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euskerahablante   Basque-speaking  
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catalanohablante   Catalan-speaking (catalanoparlant in Catalan)  
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ELE   Spanish for Foreigners (Español como Lengua Extranjera)  
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