Indo-European	major group of languages in Europe and parts of Asia
Slavic	family name of Polish, Russian and Belgian
Germanic	family name of Swedish, English and Deuch
Romance	family name of Spanish, Romanian, French
Indo-Arian	family name of Hindu, Romany (gypsy language), Farsi (spoken in Iran)
Celtic	family name of Welsh, Irish, Breton (spoken in Brittany, France)
Semitic	family name of Arabic, Hebrew
Austronesian	family name of Malay,Tagalog (spoken in the Philipines), Maori (Spoken in New Zeland)
Syntax	the grammar and word order
modality	meanings such as possibility and necessity
modal verbs	czasowniki modalne
phonology	the sound system, i.e pronunciation and intonation
phonemes	different sounds thet distinguish meanings
diphthongs	sounds made by combining vowels, such as ae and ei
lexicon	technical term for vocabulary
compounds	words formed by combining words, e.g software
Graece-Latin	orginally from Greek and Latin
Anglo-Saxon	language of England from 500-100 AD
orthography	technical term for writing systems
characters	letters or symbols
pictograms	characters representing pictures
ideograms	characters representing ideas/ concepts
morphology	how words are formed
morphems	units of meaning
...inflected	words have endings to show tense, person (e.g. Romance languages are...)
...isolating	each word has only one morpheme (e.g. Chinese language is...)
orTHOgrapgy, orthoGRAphic	ortografia, oftrograficzny (+stress)
LExicon, LExical	leksykon, leksykalny (+stress)
moDAlity, MOdal	modalność, modalne (+stress)