DEFINITIONS
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Variability
Having
much variation or diversity.
Uniformity
The state or quality of being
uniform; overall sameness, homogeneity, or regularity: uniformity
of style.
Dialect
1.
Linguistics. A
variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same
language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary,
and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others
geographically or socially.
Language
A body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition
Linguistics
The
science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
Indo-european
A large, widespread family of
languages, the surviving branches of which include italic, slavic,
baltic, hellenic, celtic, germanic, and indo-iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: english, spanish, german, latin, greek, russian, albanian, lithuanian, armenian, persian, hindi, and hittite are all indo-european languages.
Family
Linguistics.
The largest category into which languages related by
common origin can be classified with certainty: Indo-European,
Sino-Tibetan, and Austronesian are the most widely
spoken families of languages.
Proto-indo-european
The
unattested prehistoric parent language of the indo-european
languages; indo-european.
Unattested
Something
which is not certified or attested.