Groups of Languages
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 Language Group?
When space is filled with cultural meanings, and places emerge
What is placelessness?
A regional variety of a language, distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand several thousand years ago.
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
What is taboo?
Dialect spoken by some African-Americans.
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.
What is terroir?
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade.
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.