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Brief Classification of Languages - Coggle Diagram
Brief Classification of Languages
Verbal spoken
Language Family
Individual Language
Living Languages
Extinct Languages
Ancient Languages
Historic Languages
Constructed Languages
Dialect
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It also receives the name of "artificial".
When it is considered to be distinct from any modern languages.
Old English
Middle English
It is listed as ancient if it went extint in ancient times.
It must have an attested literature or being well documented as a language known to have been spoken by a particular community in history.
It may not be a reconstructed language.
Inferred from historical-comparative analysis.
Languages that are no longer living.
They don't have living people that learned it as a first language.
It is listed as extinct if it has gone extinct in recent times.
Recent centuries.
EX: Latin
A language that has still living people who learned it as a first language.
Language as a whole from the same family.
They belong to a type.
Group of languages.
Common ancestor.
Proto language of the family.
First language
Same origin
Nonverbal written
Mimic
Language
Richards
The system of human communication
Consists of
Structured arrangement of sounds
Written representation into larger units
Sentences
Morphemes
Words
Utterances
Heinle Dictionary of American English
Particular human communication
System
Spoken words
Spoken Symbols
Written Symbols
Movements