Unit 3 mini review - APHG

A collection of languages within a branch that shares a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. (e.g. West Germanic)

• Language Family

• Language Branch

• Language Group

a language that began as a combination of two other languages and is spoken as the primary language of a group of people

• Creole

• Pidgin

• Accent

the idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged through the eyes of another culture

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural Relativism

different forms of the same language used by groups that have some different vocabulary and pronunciations

• Dialect

• Accent

• Pidgin

the institutions and links between individuals and groups that unite a culture, including family structure and political, educational and religious institutions. "What a culture does"

• Sociofacts

• Mentifacts

• Artifacts

The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.

• Pidgin

• Creole

• Official Language

• Lingua Franca

Belief in One God

• Monotheistic

• Polytheistic

Belief in many gods (2+)

• Monotheistic

• Polytheistic

Where something was born or originated from

• hearth

• culture

• Sense of place

Nonmaterial parts of a culture such as language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths, etc.

• Sociofacts

• Mentifacts

• Artifacts