The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.
What is Custom?
100
A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.
What is Habit?
100
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
What is Taboo?
100
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
What is Folk Culture?
100
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
What is Popular Culture?
200
The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.
What is Terroir?
200
Combination of German and English.
What is Denglish?
200
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is Dialect?
200
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
What is Isogloss?
200
The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.
What is British Received Pronunciation (BRP)?
300
A language that results from mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What is Creole?
300
Dialect spoken by African Americans.
What is Ebonics?
300
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
What is Extinct Language?
300
A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language; a combination of francais and anglais, the French and English.
What is Franglais?
400
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
What is Isolated Language?
400
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
What is Language?
400
A language the written as well as spoken.
What is Literary Tradition?
400
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
What is Official Language?
400
Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans.
What is Spanglish?
500
The form of Latin used in daily conservation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.
What is Vulgar Latin?
500
The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English.
What is Ideograms?
500
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
What is a Language Group?
500
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
What is Pidgin Language?
500
The form of a language used for official government, business, education, and mass communications.