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Parent topics
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e]
- Multilingualism [r]: The state of knowing two or more languages, either in individuals or whole speech communities. [e]
- Creolistics [r]: The study of creole and pidgin languages. [e]
Subtopics
- Lingua franca [r]: Any language used for widespread communication between groups who do not share a native language or where native speakers are typically in the minority; name from 'Lingua Franca', a pidgin once used around the Mediterranean. [e]
- Pidgin (language) [r]: A language with no native speakers and relatively few uses, created spontaneously by two or more groups with no common language, using vocabulary and grammar from multiple sources; often a pidgin's grammar is rudimentary, and it has a restricted set of words, but in time they can develop into more complex 'expanded' pidgins with many more functions. [e]
- Creole (language) [r]: Native language, such as Haitian Creole, which under most definitions originated as a pidgin (a rudimentary language without native speakers, created by at least two groups of speakers as a contact language. i.e. to allow immediate communication) but became as complex as any other language through being acquired by children as a first language. [e]
- Speech community [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Language acquisition [r]: The study of how language comes to users of first and second languages. [e]
- Ruby (programming language) [r]: Dynamically-typed, object-oriented programming language created by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1995. [e]
- Social security [r]: Generic term referring to state programs for the protection of the elderly, healthcare provision, and income maintenance. [e]
- Yeoman (rank) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Musaeus [r]: Name attributed to four ancient Greek poets. [e]
- Ancient Olympic Games [r]: Major athletic contest of ancient Greece. [e]
- Katakana [r]: (カタカナ) one of three scripts used in the Japanese writing system, representing moras (units similar to syllables); typically used to write loanwords or explicitly indicate pronunciation. [e]
- Word (language) [r]: A unit of language, often regarded as 'minimally distinctive' and used to build larger structures such as phrases; languages vary in how distinctive word units are and how much they may be modified. [e]
- Pidgin (language) [r]: A language with no native speakers and relatively few uses, created spontaneously by two or more groups with no common language, using vocabulary and grammar from multiple sources; often a pidgin's grammar is rudimentary, and it has a restricted set of words, but in time they can develop into more complex 'expanded' pidgins with many more functions. [e]