Ap Human Geography : Folk And Popular Culture, Languages, And Religion

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culture

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the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitutes a group's distinct tradition

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non-material culture

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ideas, knowledge, and beliefs that influence people's behaviors

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material culture

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the physical manifestation of human activities; includes tools, campsites, art, and structures; the most durable aspects of culture

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custom

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a frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group performing the act

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habit

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a repetitive act performed by a particular individual

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folk culture

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culture traditionally practiced by a small homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups

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popular culture

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culture found in large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

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taboo

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a restriction on behavior imposed by social customs

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terrior

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a contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes

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cultural hearth

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heartland, source area, innovation center, and place of origin of a major culture

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cultural diffusion

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the spread of cultural elements from one society to another

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salt box style house

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building with a long, pitched roof that slopes down top the back, wooden frame, two stories in the front, one in the back, front and central chimney, asymmetrical

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New England style house

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small, one story with a pitched roof, "Cape Cod" style, or irregular "salt box" with one long pitched roof in the front and a sort of low angle roof in the back

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Cape Cod style house

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a house with a simple rectangular design, a central chimney, and a pitched roof

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Creolized language

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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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denglish

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a combination of German and English

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dialect

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a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

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ebonics

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a dialect spoken by some African Americans

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extinct language

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a language that was once used by people in their daily activities but is no longer used

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franglais

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a term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language

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isogloss

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a boundary that separates regions in which different language usage predominate

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isolated language

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a language that is not related to any other language and therefore not attached to any language family

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language

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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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language branch

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a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago, differences are not extensive or as old as with language families, and archeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same language family

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language family

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a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

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language group

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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 spelling

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lingua franca

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a language mutually understood by/commonly used in trace by people who have different native languages

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official language

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the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents

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pidgin language

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a form of speech that adopts simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages

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received pronunciation

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the dialect of English associates with upperclass Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom

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spanglish

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a combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans

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standard language

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the form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communication

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vulgar language

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words/phrases that show poor manners/ are impolite

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Indo-European language family

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a family of languages that by 1000 B.C were spoken throughout Europe, parts of southwestern Asia, and southern Asia

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multilingualism

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the use of two or more languages

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agnosticism

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the belief that nothing can be known about whether God exists

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animism

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the bell belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and a conscious life