AP Unit 3 vocab Flashcards

7735022513	acculturation	a process of adjustment to the dominant cultre, while retaining features of a folk culture, or syncretism	0
7735059736	assimilation	process of giving up cultural tradations, clothing, food, and adoption of th social customs of the dominant culture of the place.	1
7735204886	syncretism	creation of a new cultural feature through combing elements of two groups	2
7790359542	language	system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning	3
7790359543	language family	Collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history	4
7790381934	language group	selection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities and grammar and vocabulary	5
7790381935	lingua franca	language of international communication such as English	6
7790381936	dialect	regional variation of language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary spelling and pronunciation	7
7790381937	creole	A language that results from the mixing of colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated	8