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24 Cards in this Set
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traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas.
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Folk culture
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found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
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Popular culture
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is a repetitive act that a particular individual performs such as wearing jeans to class everyday.
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habit
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a repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group.
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custom
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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
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taboo
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strongest taboos are in the area of what?
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food
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popular culture is becoming more dominant, threating the survival of unique folk cultures because of what?
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globalization
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a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.
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language
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what are the two dominant languages?
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arabic, hispanic
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a regional variation of language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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dialect
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a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication.
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standard language
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the language used by government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps.
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official language
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a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago.
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language branch
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language in the indo european family is spoken by what percent of the worlds people
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48 percent
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language in the sino tibetan famil is spoken by what percent of the worlds peopl
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26 percent
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language in the afro asiatic family is spoken by what percent of the worlds people
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6 percent
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language in the austronesian family is spoken by what percent of the worlds people?
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5 percent
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A language in the dravidian family is spoken by what percent of the worlds people?
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4 percent
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A language in the altaic family is spoken by what percent of the worlds people?
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3 percent
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A language in the niger congofamily is spoken by what percent of the worlds people?
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3 percent
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A language in the Japanese family is spoken by what percent of the worlds people?
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2 percent
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a language of international communication also known as common tongue
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lingua franca
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What is the lingua franca of international business
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English
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a collection of languages in a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent pas and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
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language group
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