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accent
The way people speak and how words are pronounced are different in different parts of the world.
acculturation
The adoption of cultural traits, such as languages.
Anatolian Hypothesis
Speakers of proto-indo european lived in anatolia during the neolithic era.
animism
Belief that objects or natural events have discrete spirit and life.
artifact
An artifact that is made by humans that represents culture.
assimilation
People lose originating differentiating traits when they go to another culture/ place.
autonomous religion
A religion that doesn’t have central authority but shares ideas and cooperates.
boundaries
Invisible line that marks the states territories
Branch (of a religion)
Large fundamental division within a religion.
built environment
The tangible items that are built by humans.
core-domain-sphere model
Model that shows culture traits that characterize the region is greatest.
cosmogony
Religious beliefs concerning the universe
creole
Languages formed by the combination of 2 or more languages.
cultural convergence
Culture becomes similar in ways such as structure, technology and values.
cultural ecology
The study of human adaptations to social and physical environments.
cultural landscape
Attributes of an area to describe a place.
cultural perception
People of different cultures will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decisions about its nature, potentiality and use.
culture complex
Group of traits that define a culture.
culture hearth
Place of origin with widespread cultural trend
culture realm
Regin where traits maintain homogeneity.
culture region
Functional region within common cultural characteristics
culture trait
Specific customs that are a part of everyday culture.
custom
Frequent repetition of an act of a group
denomination
Division of a branch unifies a number of congregations in a single legal body.
dialect
Regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary spelling and pronunciation.
diocese
Unit of organization in the roman catholic church.
environmental determinism
Philosophy of geography that stated human behaviors are a result of the surrounding environment.
ethnic religion
Relate closely to the culture ethnic heritage and physical geography of a particular place.
extinct language
Once used by people in daily activities but no longer used.
folk culture (folkways)
Particular customs of a small group of people that make the group unique.
fundamentalism
Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion.
ghetto
Area of a city where people in ethnic minority are confined by government and economic and social obstacles that make it hard to ethnically exist outside of the place.
globalization
Increasing connection of economic, cultural and political characteristics around the world.
glocalization
Process which human culture spreads internationally while reinforcing certain local culture.
habit
Repetitive act performed by one person.
hierarchical religion
Religion which central authority exercises high degree of control
ideogram
System of writing used in china or other east asian countries where each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a sound.
Indo-European
Language family that has all European languages in it.
inhumation
Act of human burial
interfaith and intrafaith
Interfaith- boundaries between worlds major faiths.
Intrafaith- boundaries within major religions.
isogloss
Boundary line between two distinct linguistic regions.
isolated language
Language that is unrelated to any other language but doesn’t belong to any language family.
Kurgan Hypothesis
Initial spread of proto-indo european during 5th and 4th millennia BC.
language
Way of human communication with others like them.
language branch
Lots of languages related to a common ancestor derived from the same family.
language family
Collection of languages through common ancestors long before recorded history.
language group
Collection of languages within a branch, recent languages
lingua franca
Language that has simple words from multiple languages so that people can understand one another.
literary tradition
System of written communication.
material culture
Anything that can be physically seen on a landscape.
mentifact
Shared ideas, values and belief in culture.
mono-, bi-, multi-linguality
Mono- speaks one language, bi speakers two languages, multi speakers several languages. Can understand people in said language and speak fluently.
monotheism
Belief that there is only one god.
national language
Language adopted by countries' governments conducting business and publishing of official government documents.
nominalism
philosophical position that promotes that universal or abstract concepts do not exist in the same way as physical, tangible material.
Nostratic Hypothesis
Hypothesized family of languages to several language families of eurasia and northern africa.
official language
Language adopted by countries' governments conducting business and publishing of official government documents.
orthography
Method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symboles.
pidgin
Emerges when 2 or more languages join together in a small geographic area.
pilgrimage
Voluntary travel to a sacred site to pay respects or to participate in a ritual at the site.
polyglot
Using several languages
polytheism
Belief in many gods
popular culture
Culture not tied to specific location but rather a general location
possibilism
Theory that the physical environment sets limits on human actions but can adjust to the physical environment.
sacred space
A place that is considered holy to some people.
sect
Small group that broke away from an established denomination.
secularism
idea that ethical and moral standards should be formulated and adhered to for life on earth
sequent occupance
Notion that societies leave their cultural imprints on an area.
shamanism
Form of tribal religion that involved the community of a religious leader,healer, worker of magic and so on.
slang
Short lived language used in place of standard words.
sociofact
Organizations of a culture that has influence on social behavior.
standard language
Language used for government business education and large group communication.
syncretism
Blending of cultures and ideas from different places along the globe.
syntax
How words are arranged in sentences.
taboo
Restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
toponym
Word for name but specific to locations.
trade language
Language used between native speakers to they can trade with each other.
tribal religion
Ethnic or regional religions customs under an organized religion but unique to the tribe.
uniform landscape
Spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that is similar to each other.
universalizing religion
Belief that systems are attractive to the population of the world.
vernacular
Area that people believe exist as part of cultural identity.
vernacular region
Emerge from someone’s informal sense of place; mind map
vocabulary
Cultural landscape defined
Zionism
Movement to unite jewish people of the group that lives in one area but want to be in the promised land
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