*Luksa Review 3
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| Custom | The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people perfroming the act.
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| Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
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| Habit | A repetetive act performed by a particular individual
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| Popular Culture | Culture found in a large, heterogenous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
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| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social customs.
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| 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
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| 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
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| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation
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| Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African Americans
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Isogloss | A boundary that seperates regions in which different language useages predominate.
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| Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
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| 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.
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| Language Branch | A collecion of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
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| 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.
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| Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
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| Lingua Franca | A language mutually undersood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
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| Literary Tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken
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| Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
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| 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
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| Spanglish | Combination of spanish and english, spoken by hispanic
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| 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.
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| Universalizing Religions | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
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| 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
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| Branch | A large and fundamental division within a religion
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| Denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body
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| Sect | A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
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| Monotheism | The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god
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| Polytheist | Belief in or worship of more than one god
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