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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Custom | The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people perfroming the act. |
| Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. |
| Habit | A repetetive act performed by a particular individual |
| Popular Culture | Culture found in a large, heterogenous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social customs. |
| British Recieved Pronunciation | The dialect of English associated with upper class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom |
| Creole, or Creolized Language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being donimated |
| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation |
| Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African Americans |
| Franglais | A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French languages, a combonation of "Francais" and "Anglais", the French words for French and English |
| Ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asain countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English. |
| Isogloss | A boundary that seperates regions in which different language useages predominate. |
| Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family |
| Language | A system of communication through the use of speech, a collecton of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning. |
| Language Branch | A collecion of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. |
| Language Group | A collection of languages within a Branch that share a common orgin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. |
| Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. |
| Lingua Franca | A language mutually undersood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. |
| Literary Tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken |
| Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents |
| Pidgin Language | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammer and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for a communications among speakers of two different languages |
| Spanglish | Combination of spanish and english, spoken by hispanic |
| Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in Daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard Dialect, which was used for official documents. |
| Universalizing Religions | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location |
| Ethnic Religion | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated |
| Branch | A large and fundamental division within a religion |
| Denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body |
| Sect | A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination |
| Monotheism | The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god |
| Polytheist | Belief in or worship of more than one god |
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