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AP GEO CH 4 & 5
Adams HCHS AP Human Geo. Rubenstein Ch 4 & 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Custom | the frequent repetition of an act to the extent that it becomes a characteristic of the group performing it |
| Folk culture | culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in isolation from other groups |
| Habit | a repetitive act performed by a particular individual |
| Pop culture | culture found in large heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
| Taboo | a restriction or behavior imposed by social custom |
| British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | A particular dialect of England, the one associated with the upper class |
| Creole | Defined as a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
| Dialect | A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation |
| Ebonics | A dialect spoken by some African Americans |
| Extinct Language | Languages once spoken but no longer are or read in daily activities by anyone in the world |
| Franglais | Term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language |
| Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate |
| Isolated Language | A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family |
| Language | A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understand to have the same meaning |
| Language Branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago, within a language family |
| Language Family | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history |
| Language Group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary |
| Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
| 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 grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca |
| Spanglish | A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans |
| Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communication |
| Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans |
| Denglish | A combination of German and English |
| Literary tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken |
| Logogram | A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound |
| Terroir | The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way a food tastes. |
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