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Language
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How learned belief systems, customs, and skills are shared
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Language
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System of communication understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
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Dialect
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Variant form of a language
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Pidgin
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Consists of small vocab, simple gramar that is borrowed from 2 or more languages
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Example of pidgin
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Tok pisin
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Example of dialect
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British vs. american english
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Creole
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Pidgin language that becomes more common, widespread, and taught to children as naive language
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Lingua franca
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Language used when 2 or more groups come together that speak different languages
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Example of lingua franca
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Swahili in east africa
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How many native english speakers
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343 million
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How many languages spoken today
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5000-8000
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Language family
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Group of related languages derived from a common ancestral language
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Indo-european family
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Largest, most widespread, 50% of world population, relocation diffusion
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Sino-tibetan family
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Second largest, more localized (not as widespread), 25% of world population, eastern asia
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Afro-asiatic family
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North africa and arabian peninsula, 6-7% of world population, third largest
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