Sentence:  These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of <WSD>English</WSD> meaning between illiterate informants and myself , within a compact and uniform territorial area , but that Hoijer 's vocabulary is based on Swadesh 's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries