| A | B |
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| Culture Basica | ***definition to come*** |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition. |
| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom. |
| Language | system of communication through the use of speech, collection of sounds and understood by a group of people to have the same meaning |
| Dialect | regional variation of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling and pronunciation |
| Language Family | collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |
| Language Branch | collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family |
| Language Group | collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocab |
| Lingua Franca | language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
| Isogloss | boundary that seperates regions in which different language uses predominate |
| Religion | The service and worship of God or the supernatural. |
| Monotheism | The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god. |
| Polytheism | Belief in or worship of more than one god. |
| Cosmogony | A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe. |
