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Geography Chapter 5 Vocab
Chapter 5 Vocabulary
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11th Grade
12/08/2009

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Syncretism
Definition
The development of a new form of cul.ture trait by the fusion of two or more distinct parental elements
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Standard Language
Definition
A language substantially uniform with respect to spelling, grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary and representing the approved community norm of the tongue.
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Confucianism
Definition
the system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius
and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship,
reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship,
reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.
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Dialect
Definition
Difference in vocab, pronunciation, rhythm, or speed.
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Creole
Definition
A language developed from a pidgin to become the native tongue of a society.
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Isogloss
Definition
A line on a map between linguistically varied areas.
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Judaism
Definition
Jettona set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible
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Religion
Definition
involves systems of formal or informal worship and faith in the sacred and divine.
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Secularism
Definition
an indifference to or rejection of religion and religious belief, is an increasing part of many modern societies, particularly of the industrialized nations and those now or
formerly under communist regimes.
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Universalizing Religion
Definition
faiths that claim applicability to all humans and that seek to transmit their beliefs through missionary work and conversation.
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Language
Definition
The system of words, their pronunciation, and methods of combination used and mutually understood by a community of individuals.
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Language Family
Definition
A group of languages thought to have descended from a single common ancestral tongue.
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Toponymy
Definition
The place names of a region or, especially, the study of place names.
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Lingua Franca
Definition
An established language used habitually for communication by people whose native tongues are mutually incomprehensible.
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Social Dialect
Definition
When a dialect donates social class and educational level.
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Speech Community
Definition
A group of people having common characteristic patterns of vocabulary, word arrangement, and pronunciation.
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Shamanism
Definition
A form of tribal religion based on belief in a hidden world of gods, ancestral spirits, and demons responsive only to a shaman or interceding priest.
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Shinto
Definition
The polytheistic, ethic religion of Japan that includes reverence of deities of natural forces and veneration of the emperor as descendent of the sub-goddess.
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Tribal Religion
Definition
An ethnic religion specific to a small, localized, preindustrial culture group.
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Linguistic Geography
Definition
The study of the character and spatial pattern of dialects and languages of generalized speech community.
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Polytheism
Definition
The belief in multiple gods
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Protolanguage
Definition
An assumed, reconstructed,
or recorded ancestral language.
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Multilingualism
Definition
Two or more languages in use
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Monotheism
Definition
Belief in a single deity
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Vernacular
Definition
nonstandard language or dialect native to the locale or adopted by a social group
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Ethnic religion
Definition
a religion identified with a particular ethnic group and largely exlusive to it.
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Geographic dialects
Definition
dialects based on geographical location.
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Islam
Definition
the whole body of Muslim believers, their civilization, and the countries in which theirs is the nt religion.
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Animism
Definition
A religion where one believes that all life exists in all objects, from rocks and trees to lakes and mountains, or that such inanimate objects are the abode of the , spirits, and of gods.
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Buddhism
Definition
A universalizing religion, primarily of eastern and central Asia, based on teachings of Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha, that suffering is inherent in all lifebut can be relieved by mental and moral self purification.
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Language
Definition
An organized system of spoken words by which people communicate with each other with mutual comprehension.
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Pidgin
Definition
Amalgam of languages, usually a simplified form of one, such as English or French, with borrowings from another, perhaps non-European language.
Term
Official language
Definition
The required language of instruction in the schools, universities, government business, the courts, and other official/semiofficial public and private activities within a country.
Term
Toponyms
Definition
Place names
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Universalizing religions
Definition
Faiths that claim applicability to all humans and that seek to transmit their beliefs through missionary work
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Ethnic religions
Definition
Have strong territorial and cultural group identification.
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Caste
Definition
One of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that determines one's occupation and position in society.
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Christianity
Definition
A monotheistic, universalizing religion based on the teachings of Jesus Chrsit and of the Bible as sacred scripture.
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Hinduism
Definition
An ancient and now nt value system and religion of India, closely identified with Indian culture but without central creed, single doctrine, or religious organization. Dharma (customary duty and divine law) and caste are uniting elements.
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Taoism
Definition
A chinese value system and ethnic religion emphasizing conformity to Tao (way), the creative reality ordering the universe
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