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17 Cards in this Set
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Romance Languages
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French Spanish Italian Romanian and Portuguese
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Latin based languages
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French Italian Portuguese Spainish and Romanian
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indo European language
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language that would give us the hearth of ancient latin, Greek and sanskrit
spoke though America's and Europe and india |
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language group
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commonalities are more definite and the orgin is more recent
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language family
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have a shared but fairly distant orgin
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Lingua franca
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language used among speakers of different languages for the purpose of trade and commerce
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official language
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the language selected to promote internal chohesion
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standard language
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the variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote ad the norms In school, govt., media ect.
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toponomy
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place name
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dialect
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local ir regional characteristics of a language
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Creole language
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a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the mother tongue
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aministic religion
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the belief that inanimate objects possess souls and can help or hinder human efforts on earth
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universalizing religion
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a belief system that espouses the idea that there is one true religion that is universal in scope
adherents believe that their belief represents universal truth |
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evangelical religion
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maintaining that the essence of the gospel consists in the doctrine of salvation by faith in Jesus's atonement
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ethnic religion
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a religion that us particular to one, culturally distinct, group of people
adherents if ethnic religions do not actively seek converts through evangelism or missionary work |
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interfaith
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boundaries btw. the world's major religions
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Where did Hinduism originate ?
How many adherents ? Who started it ? Sacred Sites ? Ranking |
1. Indus River Valley ; 4,000 yrs.
2. 950 million 3. No single founder 4. Have pilgrimages 5. 3rd worldwide |
