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  1. 2. 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.
  2. 8. A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.
  3. 10. A Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
  4. 13. The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group’s distinct tradition.
  5. 14. A Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
  6. 15. A picture representation.
  7. 17. A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence.
  8. 21. A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
  9. 22. Belief or worship of more than one god.
  10. 23. The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law.
  11. 26. The doctrine of or belief in the existence of only one God.
  12. 27. A language that is written as well as spoken.
  13. 31. language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
  14. 34. The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
  15. 36. A local assembly of persons brought together for common religious worship.
  16. 38. An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.
  17. 39. A system of communication through the use of speech, and collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
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  1. 1. religion- A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally.
  2. 3. The belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
  3. 4. The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.
  4. 5. A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
  5. 6. A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
  6. 7. A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
  7. 9. The process of reduction in cultural diversity through the diffusion of popular culture.
  8. 11. A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
  9. 12. The contribution of a location’s distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.
  10. 16. A language at risk of extinction because it has few surviving speakers.
  11. 18. A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body.
  12. 19. A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.
  13. 20. A center of innovation.
  14. 24. A dialect spoken by some African Americans.
  15. 25. A large and fundamental division within a religion.
  16. 28. The belief that the existence of God can’t be proven or disproven empirically.
  17. 29. A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.
  18. 30. A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.
  19. 32. A language used by older people, but is not being transmitted to children.
  20. 33. a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews but now used to represent an area of a city in which people live because of social, legal, or economic reasons.
  21. 35. The belief that God doesn’t exist.
  22. 37. A language that is unrelated to any other language and therefore not attached to any language family.