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Language and Religion test for Human Geography

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How does a language family go?   show
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show seek converts  
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What are examples of a universal religion?   show
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show tied to a particular place and certain people  
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show Judaism, Hinduism,  
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show A story of a man  
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show Beliefs that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.  
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show A religion that doesn't have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally.  
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show A large and fundamental division within a religion.  
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caste   show
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cosmogony   show
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denomination   show
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fundamentalism   show
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ghetto   show
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hierarchical religion   show
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show An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.  
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monotheism   show
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show A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times.  
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show A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.  
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show Belief in or worship of more than one god.  
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sect   show
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show Sun farthest from equator.happens twice a year the tilt of Earths axis most inclined toward or away from Sun, causing Suns apparent position in sky to reach its most northernmost or southernmost extreme, and resulting in shortest + longest days of year  
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show 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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show A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.  
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Dialect   show
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show Dialect spoken by some African Americans.  
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Extinct language   show
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Franglais   show
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Ideograms   show
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show A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.  
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Isolated language .   show
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show A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.  
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show A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family.  
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show A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.  
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show 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.  
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Lingua franca   show
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Literary tradition   show
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Official language   show
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show A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.  
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show Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans.  
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Standard language   show
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Vulgar Latin   show
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show mystical and magical aspects of life. seek dao or the way. polytheistic.Ethnic to China and Taiwan  
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show Ethnic to Japan. Polytheistic. No sacred text  
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show Ethnic to India. Guru Nanak founder.sacred book Guru Granth Sahih. monotheistic. avoid 5 vices. Branch of Islam  
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show North Western India Ethnic. believe everything has life. Siramina tradition.  
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Baha'i basic tenets   show
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show Because of the British Empire in the 17th 18th and 19th century  
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What are the origins of English?   show
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What are the 3 Germanic tribes?   show
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show 1066 CE  
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What are the 8 branches of Indo- European languages?   show
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show Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian  
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show roman languages  
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How many languages does Nigeria have?   show
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dominant religion (s) in south america   show
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dominant religion(s) in canada   show
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show protestant and roman catholic  
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dominant religion(s) in North africa   show
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dominant religion(s) in eastern europe   show
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show roman catholic and protestant  
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dominant religion(s) in middle east   show
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dominant religion(s) in south asia   show
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dominant religion(s) in east asia   show
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% of world speaks a language in indo-european family   show
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show 26  
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show 6  
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% of world speaks a language in austronesian   show
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% of world speaks a language in dravidian   show
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% of world speaks a language in altaic   show
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% of world speaks a language in niger-congo   show
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show 2  
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show 3  
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dominant language family in US   show
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dominant language family canada   show
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show indo-european and amerindian  
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show afro-asiatic  
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dominant language family south africa   show
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show indo-european  
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show indo-european and uralic  
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dominant language family mid asia   show
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show indo- european and dravidian  
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show sino-tibetan  
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