Language
a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is a Dialect?
Largest percentage of Christians belong to this...
What is Catholicism?
An urban area with high concentrations of specific cultural groups, usually formed by immigrants.
What is an ethnic neighborhood or ethnic enclave?
The origin or beginning place of a culture, religion, language, etc.
What is a hearth?
Holy city for Christians, Muslims, and Jews
What is Jerusalem?
Group of languages associated together because of common ancestry in structure or syntax.
What is a Language Family?
What is an intrafaith boundary?
An example of an ethnic religion.
What is Judaism or Hinduism?
The physical/tangible artifacts that make up a culture.
What is material culture?
Kashmir is the area between India and Pakistan and of violence between these two religions?
What is Hinduism and Islam (Hindus and Muslims)?
The border to a distinct language or dialect.
What was Isogloss?
The Shiite branch of this religion dominates Iran.
What is Islam?
Having an ethnically diverse population may be a cause of this divisive force.
What is a centrifugal force?
A literal interpretation and strict adherence to the basic principles of a religion.
What is Fundamentalism?
The theocratic country that is also an enclave in Italy.
What is Vatican City?.
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade....
What is Lingua Franca?
Judaism spread from its hearth in the Eastern Mediterranean region to places in North Africa, Europe and later the United States and Israel mostly from this type of diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?
The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. Typically very violent.
What is Balkanization?
The belief that there is only one God.
What is monotheism?
What is the Ganges River?
Mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language...
What is Creole (or Creolized) language?
The third largest universalizing religion in the world.
What is Buddhism?
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
What is a Centripetal Force?
A religion in which believers seek to actively convert others to their religion.
What is a Universalizing Religion?
The place that Buddha found/reached enlightenment.
What is the Bodh Gaya or Bodhi Tree?