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25 Cards in this Set
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A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe.
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Cosmology
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A system of communication, through a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
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Language
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A language that is written as well as spoken.
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Literary tradition
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The language adopted for use by a government for use the conduct of business and publication.
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Official language
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A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.
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Pilgrimage
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A(n) ________ is defined as a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
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creole
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Which of the following is NOT one of the four official languages of Switzerland?
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English
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Which of the following is not a branch of the Indo-European family?
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Dravidian
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Belgium's language boundary sharply divides the country into two regions. What are the two languages spoken in these two regions?
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French and Flemish
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Which of the following is an accurate definition of a sect?
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A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
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The Indo-European family is divided into eight branches. Which of these is the largest of the eight branches?
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Indo-Aryan
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Which of the following are adherents to the two main branches of Islam?
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Sunnis and Shi'ites
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The world's leading lingua franca is
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English
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A(n) ________ such as Basque in Europe, is a language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.
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isolated language
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Christianity first diffused from its hearth in Southwest Asia through:
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migration
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Thousands of languages are ________. These were once in use, even in the recent past but are no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world.
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extinct
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Which of the following is NOT one of East and South Asia's ethnic religions?
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Judaism
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Two competing theories have been advanced to explain the origin and diffusion of languages. These are
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The War Thesis and the Peace Thesis
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This is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
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Language family
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The founder of Buddhism is ________ who was born about 563 B.C.
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Sidhartha Gautama
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Which of the following is an ethnic religion?
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Judaism
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A ________ is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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dialect
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________ of a language are people for whom the language is their first language
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Native speakers
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Which of the following religions is NOT considered a universalizing religion?
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Judaism
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Which of the following is an example of a revived language?
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Hebrew
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