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| 9897462162 | Accent | A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. | 0 | |
| 9897778640 | Creole | A pigdin Language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it | 1 | |
| 9897778641 | cultural Complex | The group of traits that define a particular culture | 2 | |
| 9897778642 | Cultural Extinction | Obliteration of an entire culture by war, disease, acculturation, or a combo of the three | 3 | |
| 9897778643 | Cultural Geography | The sub field of human geography that looks at how cultures vary over space | 4 | |
| 9897778644 | Cultural Hearth | Locations on earths surface where specific cultures first arose | 5 | |
| 9897778645 | Cultural Imperialism | the dominance of one culture over another | 6 | |
| 9897778646 | Cultural Trait | The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture such as a language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture | 7 | |
| 9897778647 | Culture | A total way of life held in common by a group of people, including learned Features such as language, ideology, behavior, technology, and government | 8 | |
| 9897778648 | Custom | Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group | 9 | |
| 9897462163 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group |  | 10 |
| 9897778649 | Denomination | A particular religious group, usually associated with differing Protestant belief systems | 11 | |
| 9897778650 | Diaspora | People who come from a common ethnic background but who live in different regions outside of the home of their ethnicity | 12 | |
| 9897462164 | Esperanto | An artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages. |  | 13 |
| 9897462165 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. |  | 14 |
| 9897778651 | Environmental Determinism | A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions | 15 | |
| 9897778652 | Ethnic Cleansing | The systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from a country or region either by forces migration or genocide | 16 | |
| 9897778653 | Ethnic Neighborhood | An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background | 17 | |
| 9897778654 | Ethnic religion | Religion that is identifies with a particular ethnic or tribal group and that does not seek new convents | 18 | |
| 9897778655 | Ethnicity | Refers to a group of people who shares common identity | 19 | |
| 9897778656 | Evangelical Religion | Religion in which an effort is made to spread a particular belief system | 20 | |
| 9897778657 | Fundamentalism | The strict adherence to a particular doctrine | 21 | |
| 9897778658 | Global Religion | Religion in which members are numerous and widespread and their doctrines might appeal to different people from any region of the globe | 22 | |
| 9897778659 | Hinduism | A cohesive and unique society, most prevalent in India, that integrates spiritual beliefs with daily practices and official institutions such as the caste system | 23 | |
| 9897462166 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) |  | 24 |
| 9897462167 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. |  | 25 |
| 9897462168 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language. |  | 26 |
| 9897778660 | Islam | A monotheistic religion based on the belief that there is one god, Allah, and that Muhammad was Allah's prophet. Islam is based in the ancient city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Muhammad | 27 | |
| 9897778661 | Judaism | The first major monotheistic religion. It is based on a sense of ethnic identity and its adherents tend to from tight knit communities wherever they live | 28 | |
| 9897462169 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. |  | 29 |
| 9897462170 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. |  | 30 |
| 9897462171 | 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. |  | 31 |
| 9897462172 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |  | 32 |
| 9899674257 | Language Extinction | This occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people. Thousands of languages have become extinct over the eons since language first developed but the process of language extinction has Exceller rated greatly during the past 300 years | 33 | |
| 9897462173 | Indo European language family | Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. |  | 34 |
| 9897462174 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese |  | 35 |
| 9897462175 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |  | 36 |
| 9897462176 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 37 | |
| 9899674258 | Literacy | The ability to read and write | 38 | |
| 9899674259 | Local Culture | A set of common experiences or customs that shape the identity of a place and the people who live there. Local cultures are often the subjects of preservation or economic development efforts | 39 | |
| 9899674260 | Local Religion | Religions are spiritually bound to particular regions | 40 | |
| 9897462177 | Monolingual | The condition of being able to speak only a single language |  | 41 |
| 9897462178 | Bilingual | The ability to speak two languages |  | 42 |
| 9897462179 | Multilingual | The ability to speak multiple languages |  | 43 |
| 9899674261 | Minority | A racial or ethnic group is smaller then and differing from the majority race or ethnicity in a particular area or region | 44 | |
| 9899674262 | Missionary | A person of a particular faith that travels in order to recruit new members into the faith represented | 45 | |
| 9899674263 | Monotheism | The worship of only one God | 46 | |
| 9899674264 | Multicultural | Having to do with many cultures | 47 | |
| 9897462180 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |  | 48 |
| 9897462181 | Orthography | The conventional spelling system of a language. |  | 49 |
| 9897462182 | Pidgin Language | A Form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages. |  | 50 |
| 9899674265 | Pilgrimage | Journey to a place of religious importance | 51 | |
| 9899674266 | Polyglot | A multilingual state | 52 | |
| 9899674267 | Polytheism | The worship of more than one God | 53 | |
| 9899674268 | Race | A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits blood types genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics | 54 | |
| 9899674269 | Romance Languages | Any of the languages derived from Latin including Italian Spanish French and Romanian | 55 | |
| 9899674270 | Shaman | The single person who takes on the role as a priest counselor and position and acts as a conduit to the supernatural world in a shamanist culture | 56 | |
| 9897462183 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |  | 57 |
| 9899674271 | Syncretic | Traditions that borrow from both the past and present | 58 | |
| 9897462184 | Toponym | a place name or a word derived from the name of a place |  | 59 |
| 9897462185 | Trade Language | A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade. |  | 60 |
| 9899674272 | Tradition | A cohesive collection of customs within a cultural group | 61 | |
| 9899674273 | Transculturation | The expansion of cultural traits through diffusion adoption and other related processes | 62 | |
| 9897462186 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people. | 63 | |
| 9897462187 | Creole | a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage |  | 64 |
| 9897462188 | Denglish | The term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German. |  | 65 |
| 9897462189 | Franglais | a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English. |  | 66 |
| 9897462190 | Ebonics | American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English |  | 67 |
| 9897462191 | Spanglish | a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions. |  | 68 |
| 9900079039 | Vulgar Latin | A form of latin once used in daily conversation by ancient Rome as opposed to the standard dialect which was used for official documents | 69 | |
| 9900079040 | Standard Language | The form of a language is for official government business education in mass communications | 70 | |
| 9900079041 | Received Pronunciation | The dialect of English associated with upper class Britons living in London considered standard in the UK | 71 |
