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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]
- Language acquisition [r]: The study of how language comes to users of first and second languages. [e]
Subtopics
- Contact language [r]: any language which is created through contact between two or more existing languages; may occur when people who share no native language need to communicate, or when a language of one group becomes used for wider communication. [e]
- 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]
- 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]
- Diglossia [r]: Linguistic situation in which two (often very closely related) languages are used within one speech community, for different purposes. [e]
- Speech community [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hawaiian Creole [r]: Creole language (created through children acquiring a pidgin as their first language and thereby making it complex) popularly known as Hawaiian 'Pidgin', with vocabulary largely from English; spoken in the U.S. state of Hawaii, it replaced an earlier pidgin based on the Hawaiian language. [e]
- Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics that concerns itself with how the human faculty of language evolved; multidisciplinary field involving neurolinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology and others. [e]
- Magen David Adom [r]: The State of Israel's internationally recognized humanitarian and emergency services organization, under the International Committeee of the Red Cross [e]
- South African Party [r]: A South African political party that existed from 1910 until 1934 [e]