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Terms Part 2
APHUG
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isoglos | The border of usage of an individual word or pronunciations |
| Shatter belts | A zone of great cultural complexity containing many small cultural groups |
| Toponym | A place name usually consisting of two parts, the generic and the specific |
| Generic Toponym | The descriptive parts of many placenames often repeated throughout the culture area |
| Syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences |
| trade language | a language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they trade with each other |
| barrio | spanish speaking neighborhood |
| ehtnocentrism | the belief that ones cultures is superior to all others |
| plural society | a society combining ethnic contrasts, the economic interdependence of thse groups, the ecological spezialization |
| ghetto | an area in which members of a particular cultural ethnic religous or national group live in high concentration whether by choice or force |
| race | a large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage |
| nationality | nationality is a relationship between a person and their state of origin, culture, association, affiliation, and or loyalty nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state |
| acculturation | the adoption by an ethnic group of enough of the ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially |
| assimilation | the complete blending of an ethnic group into the host society, resulting in theloss of all distinctive ethnic traits |