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folk and popular culture/language

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Culture   show
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Adaptive strategies   show
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Anglo-American landscape   show
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Characteristics   show
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Built environment   show
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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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show objects of natural or culural significance  
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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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show Entertainment spread by mass communications and enjoying wide appeal  
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show a habit conducted by a group of individuals.  
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Habit   show
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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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Core   show
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show Modification to an environment by humans (including built environments and agricultural systems that reflects aspects of culture.)  
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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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cultural convergience   show
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show A collective of culture regions sharing related culture systems  
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show A nuclear area within which an advanced and distinctive set of culture traits, ideas, and technologies develops  
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Literary tradition   show
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Creole   show
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Dialect   show
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Indo-European languages   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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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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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 relatibely few differences in grammar and vocabulary  
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show a smaller group of languages within the language family that are related to one another through a common ancestor long before recorded history  
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Lingua franca   show
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Linguistic diversity   show
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show capable of communication in one (mono) language and (multi) capable of communication in more than one language, but not necessarily at the same level of proficiency  
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show an official language is a language that is given a unique legal status in the countries, states, and other territories  
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show a simplified, limited language combining features from many languages and used among persons who share no common language amongst themselves  
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show the scientific study of place-names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use and typology  
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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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Vulgar Latin   show
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Relocation diffusion   show
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show the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowball effect. (3 ways: hierarchical, contagious, stimulus)  
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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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show the spread of an underlying principle, though not necessarily the characteristic (nice cars = prestige)  
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innovation adoption   show
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survey system   show
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show territory covered by a culture  
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