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APHG CH 4 & 5 VOCAB
Wahowski Cy Lakes
Question | Answer |
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The knowledge of beliefs, language, traits, and customs shared by a group of people | CULTURE |
Type of culture that is practiced primarily by small homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas | FOLK CULTURE |
A repetitive act that is particular individual performs | HABIT |
Type of culture found in large heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics | POPULAR CULTURE |
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom | TABOO |
Standard form of British speech. Dialect of English language | BRITISH RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION (BRP) |
Language that results from teh mixing of colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | CREOLE OR CREOLIZED LANGUAGE |
A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | DIALECT |
African-American perseved distint dialect of English and Bantu tribal languages | EBONICS |
Languages that are no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world | EXTINCT LANGUAGE |
Type of written language that has characters that represent ideas or concepts | IDEOGRAMS |
Word usage boundary | ISOGLOSS |
A language unrelated to any other and therefore nto attached to any language family | ISOLATED LANGUAGE |
System of communication through speech | LANGUAGE |
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago | LANGUAGE BRANCH |
Collection of languages rated through a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history | LANGUAGE FAMILY |
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 | LANGUAGE GROUP |
A language of international communication | LINGUA FRANCA |
System of written communication | LITERARY TRADITION |
Language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money and stamps. | OFFICIAL LANGUAGE |
Type of language that has a mixture of the lingua franca and another language | PIDGIN LANGUAGE |
Language that combines English and Spanish in the United States | SPANGLISH |
Dialect that is well-established and widely recognized as the ost acceptable for government, business, education and mass communication. | STANDARD LANGUAGE |
Language of the masses in the Roman Empire. First introduced by soliders who traveled throughout the empire. | VULGAR LATIN |