Unit 3 Vocab- AP Geo Pg:2

Flashcards covering key vocabulary related to language families and religions, including definitions.

Language family

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

Language group

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 vocabulary.

Lingua franca

A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.

Literary tradition

A language that is written as well as spoken.

Logogram

A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound.

Official language

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

Pidgin language

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

Received Pronunciation (RP)

The dialect of English commonly used by politicians, broadcasters, and actors in the United Kingdom.

Spanglish

Combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans.

Standard language

The form of language used for official government, business, education, and mass communication.

Subdialect

A subdivision of dialect.

Vigorous language

A language that is in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition.

Vulgar Latin

A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.

Working language

Language used by an international organization or corporation as its primary means of communication for daily correspondence and conversation.

Agnosticism

The belief that the existence of God cannot be proven or disproven empirically.

Animism

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

Atheism

The belief that God does not exist.

Autonomous religion

A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally.

Religion branch

A large and fundamental division within a religion.

Caste

The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law.

Congregation

A local assembly of persons brought together for common religious worship.