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The development of a new form of cul.ture trait by the fusion of two or more distinct parental elements |
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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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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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Difference in vocab, pronunciation, rhythm, or speed. |
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A language developed from a pidgin to become the native tongue of a society. |
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A line on a map between linguistically varied areas. |
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Jettona set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible |
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involves systems of formal or informal worship and faith in the sacred and divine. |
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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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faiths that claim applicability to all humans and that seek to transmit their beliefs through missionary work and conversation. |
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The system of words, their pronunciation, and methods of combination used and mutually understood by a community of individuals. |
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A group of languages thought to have descended from a single common ancestral tongue. |
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The place names of a region or, especially, the study of place names. |
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An established language used habitually for communication by people whose native tongues are mutually incomprehensible. |
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When a dialect donates social class and educational level. |
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A group of people having common characteristic patterns of vocabulary, word arrangement, and pronunciation. |
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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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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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An ethnic religion specific to a small, localized, preindustrial culture group. |
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The study of the character and spatial pattern of dialects and languages of generalized speech community. |
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The belief in multiple gods |
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An assumed, reconstructed, or recorded ancestral language. |
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Two or more languages in use |
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nonstandard language or dialect native to the locale or adopted by a social group |
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a religion identified with a particular ethnic group and largely exlusive to it. |
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dialects based on geographical location. |
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the whole body of Muslim believers, their civilization, and the countries in which theirs is the nt religion. |
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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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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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An organized system of spoken words by which people communicate with each other with mutual comprehension. |
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Amalgam of languages, usually a simplified form of one, such as English or French, with borrowings from another, perhaps non-European language. |
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The required language of instruction in the schools, universities, government business, the courts, and other official/semiofficial public and private activities within a country. |
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Faiths that claim applicability to all humans and that seek to transmit their beliefs through missionary work |
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Have strong territorial and cultural group identification. |
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One of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that determines one's occupation and position in society. |
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A monotheistic, universalizing religion based on the teachings of Jesus Chrsit and of the Bible as sacred scripture. |
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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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A chinese value system and ethnic religion emphasizing conformity to Tao (way), the creative reality ordering the universe |
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