Unit 3, Week 11 Flashcards
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
Official Language
The language selected to promote internal cohesion, language of courts and government. The US does not have one.
Lingua Franca
A language that facilitates communication or trade between people who speak different native languages, which overcomes communication barriers.
Creolized Language
The result from mixing the colonizer’s language with the indigenous language.
Indigenous Language
Language of the original inhabitants of an area.
Pidgin Langauge
A language that is made by combining parts of different languages, used for communication between speakers of different languages.
Romance Language
Language that developed from Latin, the language or the ROMAN Empire, such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, or Italian.
Revived Langauge
Language which was almost extinct, but is now being used more regularly.
Isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
Religion
A set of spiritual beliefs, values, traditions, and practices held by a group of people.
Ethnic Religion
Religion with a concentrated spatial distribution that appeals primarily to one (homogeneous ethnic) group or people living in one place. It does not actively seek new members and diffuses almost exclusively through relocation. Highly localized.
Universalizing Religion
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people and actively seeks new members.
Syncretism
The blending traits from two different cultures to form a new trait, usually religion.
Secular
Worldly
Animism
The belief that bodes of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.
