CH 5 / KI 2 Vocab Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| lanuage | a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning. |
| literary tradition | system of wirtten communication |
| official language | one used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money and stamps. |
| language family | a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history. |
| language branch | a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago |
| language group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatviely recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary |
| logograms | symbols that represent words, or meaningful parts of words, rather than sounds. |
| vulgar latin | latin that people in the provinces learned was not the standard literary form but a spoken form |
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