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linguistic relativity
Linguistic relativity is the idea that the language(s) a person speaks influences the way they think, their worldview, their cognition, or how they categorize things in the world.
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language isolate
A language isolate is a language that is unrelated to any other known language.
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retronym
A retronym is a new term for an old concept that is created because the word for the old concept has shifted in meaning and no longer uniquely refers to the original idea.
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language family
A language family is a group of languages that descend from a common ancestor.
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linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.