AP HUGE Chapter 5 Review

A Chinese value system and ethnic religion emphasizing conformity to Tao, the creative reality ordering the universe.

A society or country that uses only one language for all purposes of communication.

A group of people having common characteristic patterns of vocab, word arrangement, and pronunciation.

A personal or institutionalized system of worship and of faith in the sacred and divine.

The development of a new form of culture trait by the fusion of two or more distinct parental traits.

A mapped boundary line marking the limits of a particular linguistic feature.

Any of various auxiliary languages used as common tongue among people of an area where several languages are spoken.

The polytheistic, ethnic religion of Japan that includes reverence of deities of natural forces.

The nonstandard indigenous language or dialect of a locality.

System of words, pronunciation, and methods of combination used and mutually understood by a community of individuals.

A monotheistic, universalizing religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible as sacred scripture.

A language developed from a pidgin to become the native tongue of a society.

A rejection of or indifference to religion and religious practice.

A Chinese value system and ethnic religion emphasizing ethics, social morality, tradition, and ancestor worship.

A monotheistic, ethnic religion developed among the Hebrew people of the ancient Near East; claim decent from Israel.

A language variant marked by vocab, grammar, or pronunciation difference from other variants of the same common language

A place or geographic feature name.

Belief in or worship of more than one god.

An ancient and now dominant value system and religion of India, closely identified with Indian culture.

Describing a person's or society's use of two languages.

One of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that determines one's occupation and position in society.

A religion identified with a particular ethnic group and largely exclusive to it; do not often seek converts.

A monotheistic, universalizing religion that includes belief in Allah as the sole deity and in Mohammed as his prophet.

A universalizing religion found in east and central Asia believing life is about suffering and moral self-purification.

A religion that claims global truth and applicability, regardless of ethnicity or culture group, and seeks converts.

Location with special significance to a religious group and often attracting pilgrimages or worship rituals.

Study of the spatial distribution of languages, including the study of language groups, families, dialects, creoles, etc

The belief that there is but a single God.

An assumed, reconstructed, or recorded ancestral language.

A group of languages thought to have descended from a single, common ancestral tongue.

A language substantially uniform with respect to spelling, grammar, etc. and representing the approved community norms.

An auxiliary language derived, with reduced vocab and simplified structure, from combinations of other languages.

Gov't designated language of instruction, of gov't, of the courts, and other official public and private communication.

A belief that natural objects may be the abode of spirits or gods who give the objects the appearance of life.

A religion specific to a small, localized, preindustrial culture group.

The common use of two or more languages by an individual or in a society or country.

A set of beliefs and practices in some tribal religions based on belief in a hidden world of gods, ancestral spirits.