To forgive. Implies allowing people who are in a country illegally to remain and become citizens
Amnesty
100
A system of written communication
Literary tradition
100
the language used by the government for laws, reports, public objects, road signs, money, and stamps
official language
200
Regional variation of language distinguished by distinct vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
i.e. "Y'all..."; "Omg, like totally!"
Dialect
200
Dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable
Standard language
200
A boundary that separates regions separates regions in which different languages usages predominate
Isoglass
200
a collection of languages related through common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history
language family
200
a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
language group
300
an area that has a mixing of different cultural traits
cultural realm
300
the place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest
core-domain-sphere model
300
something diffuses to place and its not valuable to them
maladaptive diffusion
300
areas where 2 cultures come together
Cultural transition zones
300
a language no longer in the world today
extinct language
400
a language that results from the mixing of colonizers's language of the people being dominated
*hint: starts with a C and ends with E*
creole
400
a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
*hint:currently, English is this*
Lingua Franca
400
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among two speakers of two diffrent languages
*hint: 2 words, 1st sounds like a type of bird*
Pidgin language
400
Most prevalent in Africa and the Americas, the doctrine saying that the world is infused through spirits, and supernatural powers and all objects have a spirit
Animism
400
Religion that is adopted mainly by people of one race, mostly practiced around its hearth
ethnic religion
500
referred to as a Universalizing Religion, which is an attempt to be global, to appeal all people, wherever they may live in the world, not just to those of one culture or location
*hint: P...c R...n
Proselytic Religion
500
literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion
fundamentalism
500
The spreading of a religion world wide, practiced outside its hearth
universalizing religion
500
a religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally
*hint: A...s R...n
autonomous religion
500
attempts to merge and analogies several originally discrete traditions, in the theology and mythology of religion, and thus assert an underlying unity allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths
*hint: S...c R...n