Unit 3 Vocab pt. 2

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Creolization/Creolized Language

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Creolization/Creolized Language

A pidgin language that develops into a new combined language with native speakers. Frequently developed through settings of colonization or slavery

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Lingua Franca

A common language used by speakers of two different languages for communication. Usually for business, trade, commerce or popular culture.

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Imperialism

The dominance of one country through diplomacy or force.

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Colonialism

When a powerful country establishes settlements in a less powerful country for economic and/or political gain.

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Pidgin Language

An extremely simplified, limited, non-native language used by two people that speak two different languages

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Dialect

Variations in accent, grammar, usage and spelling and develop out of geographic distance or isolation

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Cultural Convergence

The process of two or more cultures coming into contact with each other and adopt each other’s traits to become more alike

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Cultural Divergence

Cultures become less alike due to both cultural and physical barriers.

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Language Family

Largest group of related languages which are connected through a common, ancient ancestry and trace back to a common hearth

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Language Branch

Collection of languages that share a common origin from thousands of years ago. They were separated from other languages in their family and are now distinctive although related

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Universalizing Religions

Widely diffused from the hearth through expansion and relocation diffusion

  • Not confined to a specific location

  • Missionary-attempt to convert people to join

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Ethnic Religions

Smaller diffusion and overall distribution from hearth. Restricted to relocation.

  • tied to a specific location or ethnic group

  • Do not recruit adherents

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Time Space Convergence

The shrinking of the world due to improvements in communication and transportation technologies

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Assimilation

When a minority group adopts the prominent culture

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Acculturation

When one culture starts to change to look like another culture

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Indigenous Communities

Communities that live within or are attached to, geographically distinct traditional habitats or ancestral territories, and who identify themselves as being part of a distinct cultural group

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Indo-European Languages

The largest language family with about 3.2 billion speakers distributed across the world

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Race

The physical characteristics of a common genetic heritage

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Multiculturalism

When there is a cultural diversity in a country

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Syncretism

The blending together of two or more cultural influences

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Toponyms

Place-names that can uncover your historical information about a place and its origins

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