Classification of Language

It is a group of languages related by descent froma common ancestor called the proto-language of that family.

Eg. Indoeropean

It is a language as a whole from the same family

Eg. Portuguese, Italian

A languge is listed as living when there are people still living who learned it as a first language

Eg. English, Spanish

It is the language that are no longer living. A language is listed as extinct if it has gone extinct in recent times

Eg. Mandan, Wichita

A language is listed as ancient if it went extinct in ancient times. Identifiers are assigned to ancient languages which have a distintic literature and are teated distinctly by the scholarly community

Eg. Sanskrit

A language is listed as historict when it is considered to be distinct from any modern language that are descended from it.

Eg. Old English

It is a variety of language, spoken in a determined are limited by geographical or political boundaries of a country or by people belonging to a particular social class.

Eg. DIalect from: Tulcan, Cuenca

It is the language system of an individual as expressed by the way a person speaks (voice, quality, pitch, speeach rhythm) or writes within the overall system of a particular language

Eg. Cristian's idiolect

It is a language used by people who work in a particular area or who ahve a common interest. All have specialized terms and expressions that they use, many of which may not be comprehensible to the foreigner.

Eg. Lawyer, computer programmers, criminals

It is an informal language that is not rude, but would not be used in formal situations.

Eg. ain't