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Adaptive Strategies: the unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical environment; those aspects of culture that serve to provide the necessities of life- food, clothing, shelter, and defense.
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Anglo-American landscape: township and range patterns established by early settlers
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Architectural form: the look of housing, effected by the available materials,the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time. ( fields, terraces, grain storage)
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Built environment: the part of the physical landscape that represent material culture; the buildings, roads, bridges, and similar structures large and small of the cultural landscape
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Creole: A language blending African, European, or indigenous Caribbean languages
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Dialect: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
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Folk culture: cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities
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Folk Food: food that is tradtionally made by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
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Folk food: food that is tradtionally made by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
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Folk House: houses that reflect cultural heritage, current fashion, functional needs, and the impact of environment. The form of each house is related in part to environmental as well as social conditions.
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Folk Songs: songs that are traditonally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
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Folklore: unwritten stories, customs, sayings, and traditional beliefs of a culture; the study of these
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Indo-European languages: the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
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Isogloss: A boundary that seperates regions in which different language usages predominate
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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.
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Language family: a group of languages that have a common origin
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Language group: a set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics
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Language subfamily: group of languages with more commonality than a language family (indicates they have branched off more recently in history)
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Lingua franca: A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
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Linguistic diversity: a variety of languages used in an area
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Material culture: The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people.
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Monolingual: speaking or writing only one language
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multilingual: able to speak several languages
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Nonmaterial culture: ideas, knowledge and beliefs that influence people's behavior
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Official language: The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
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Pidgin: a lingua franca that has been simplified and modified through contact with other languages
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Popular culture: Cultural traits such as dress, diet and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced western societies
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Survey systems: pattern of land division used in an area
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Toponymy: The study of place names
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Trade language: A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
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Traditional architecture: traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places
