AP HUGE Unit 3.1

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Custom

Repetitive act performed by a group (ex. all male college students from American South wear pastel shirts).

Habit

Repetitive act performed by a individuals (ex. one college student wears jeans w/ colorful patches).

Folk Culture

Anonymous hearths, possible to have multiple hearths each originating independently.

Popular Culture

Product of developed countries, spreads throughout world.

Language

System of communication through speech, a collection of sounds a group understands.

Dialect

Regional variation of a language distinguished by distinguished by distinctive vocab, spelling, pronunciation.

Isoglass

Geographic boundaries of where different dialects or languages are separated.

Language Family

Collection of languages related through an unknown common ancestral language.-

Language Branch

Collection of languages within a family via common ancestral language.

Language Group

Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin, displaying similar grammar and vocabulary.

Lingua Franca

Language to speak to communicate to speak w/ outsiders (English for most countries, in Europe, NA, SA)

Official Language

A language designated by law to be used for government and official functions.

Hearth

The origin or center of a cultural trait, idea, or practice.

Diffusion

The process by which a cultural trait, idea, or phenomenon spreads from its place of origin ( the hearth ) to other places.