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folk and popular culture/language

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Culture   show
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show The unique way in which each culture uses it's particular physical environment; Those aspects of culture that serve to provide the necessities of life - Food, clothing, shelter, and defense  
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show American, especially an inhabitant of the United States, whose language and ancestry are English, and the landscape thereof.  
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Characteristics   show
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show the man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity  
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show Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups  
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show unwritten lore (stories, proverbs, riddles, songs) of a culture  
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Material culture   show
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show abstract or untangible human creations of society (such as attitudes, beliefs, and values) that influence people's behavior  
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Popular culture   show
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Custom   show
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show a pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition by an individual  
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show an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion  
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Formal Region   show
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Functional Region   show
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Perceptual Region   show
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show center, of central importance.  
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Cultural Landscape   show
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show Reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief  
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Core-domain-sphere model   show
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node   show
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show The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication  
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cultural realm   show
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hearth   show
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show ask teacher  
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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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show a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation  
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Indo-European languages   show
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show 1.A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters  
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Isogloss   show
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show A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language  
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Language   show
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Language family   show
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show a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatibely few differences in grammar and vocabulary  
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Language subfamily   show
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show a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages  
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Linguistic diversity   show
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Monolingual/multilingual   show
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Official language   show
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Pidgin language   show
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Toponymy   show
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show also a pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of two or more languages as a means of trade  
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show popular Latin, as distinguished from literary or standard Latin, especially those spoken forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed.  
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Relocation diffusion   show
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Expansion diffusion   show
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show The spread of an idea to positions of power, then other peoples.  
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show The widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population through some large, interconnected outlet (internet, new etc.)  
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Stimulus Expansion diffusion   show
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show study of how, why, and what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture  
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show system by which land is allotted withing a place  
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