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| Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups |
| Habit | Repetitive act performed by a particular individual |
| Popular Culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom |
| British Recieved Pronunciation | (BRP) Dialect of English associated with upperclass Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom |
| Creole language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated (AKA creolized) |
| Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation |
| Custom | Frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act |
| Ebonics | Dialect spoken by some African-Americans |
| Extinct Language | A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used |
| Franglais | A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language, a combination of francais and anglais, the French words for "French" and "English", respectively |
| Ideograms | 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 |
| Isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate |
| Isolated Language | A language that is unrelated to any other language and therefore not attached to any language family |
| Language | A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning |
| Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
| Literary Tradition | A language that is written as well as spoken |
| Official Language | Language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents |
| Pidgin Language | 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 |
| spanglish | Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans |
| Standard Language | Form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications |
| Vulgar Latin | A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents |
