Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.
Accent
assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one.
Acculturation
the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
Animism
religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices.
Christianity
the process of becoming similar to others by taking in and using their customs and culture
Assimilation
a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
Dialect
a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.
Diaspora
the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.
Ethnicity
a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
Fundamentalism
represent the origin of religious beliefs and a central place in how those beliefs are transmitted around the world.
Religious culture hearths
of the same kind; alike.
Homogeneous
children are born with an innate ability to organize laws of language, which enables children to easily learn a native language.
Nativism
used in early China especially during the Shang dynasty 1765–1123 b.c. in divination by writing a question upon it, heating it, and divining the answer from the resultant cracks.
Oracle bones
An alphabet known in modern times from the Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region.
The Phoenician alphabet
a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems.
Hieroglyph
a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience
A pilgrimage
relating to or characterized by belief in or worship of more than one god.
Polytheistic
sometimes referred to as Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages, are the various modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language family.
The Romance languages
is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age.
Sanskrit
Islam's legal system. It is derived from the Quran, Islam's holy book, as well as the Sunnah and Hadith - the deeds and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad.
Sharia
a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions.
Spanglish
a Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries.
Swahili
a language given supreme status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction
Official language
language used as a means of communication between populations speaking vernaculars that are not mutually intelligible.
Lingua Franca
a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.
a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage.
Creole