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Vocab 3.7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Linguists | scientists who study languages |
| Language tree | the relationship among language families |
| Indo-European language family | large group of languages; one of the 15 major language families |
| Romance languages | the unifying language divided into dozen of regional languages |
| Isoglasses | the boundaries between variations in pronunciations or word usage |
| Dialects | Regional variations of a language: grammar, accent, usage, & spelling |
| Adages | Sayings that attempt to express a truth about life |
| Toponym | Names of places |
| Official language | a language designated by law to be the language of government |
| Homogenous | made up largely of ethnically similar people |
| Adherents | believers in their faith |
| Ethnic religion | belief traditions that emphasize strong cultural characteristics among their followers |
| Universal religion | a religion that actively seeks to convert people to its faith regardless of their ethnic backgrounds |
| Hinduism | ethnic religion; includes the worship of many deities; originated in India |
| Polytheistic | having many gods |
| Monotheistic | having one god |
| Karma | the idea that behaviors have consequences in a present or future life |
| Caste System | rigid class structure based on the quality that shaped Indian society |
| Buddhism | grew out of the teachings of a prince; goal to achieve nirvana |
| Sikhism | new universalizing monotheistic faith, enjoy more religious freedom; border of India |
| Gurdwara | a Sikh’s place of worship |
| Judaism | one of the first monotheistic religions |
| Christianity | evolved from followers of Jesus’s teachings/Judaism |
| Islam | the religion followed by Muslims |
| Pilgrimage | a religious journey taken by a person to a sacred place of their religion |
| Homogenization | making people of different places more alike |
| Acculturation | when an ethnic group adopts the values and practices of a larger group, while still maintaining elements of their own culture |
| Assimilation | when an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group |
| Syncretism | the fusion or blending of two distinctive cultural traits into a unique hybrid trait |
| Glocalization | a form of syncretism that involves the creation of products or services for the global market by adapting them for a local market |
| Multiculturalism | the coexistence of several cultures in one society with all cultures being valued and studied |
| Nativist | anti-immigrant |
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