GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Alms, Theocracy, Fokker E.Ii
9 May 2016
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The defining cornerstones of human culture and identity. Humans are genetically hard-wired for complex linguistic ability and self- consciousness: noam chomsky: deep structure, universal grammar. A map of religious and linguistic regions is in many ways a map of culture regions. An organized system of spoken and/or written words. Words consist of symbols or a group of symbols put together to represent either a thing or an idea, depending on the writing systems. Syllabic languages: symbols (ideographs) represent an idea or a thing. There are about 6,900 different languages spoken around the world today, but the vast majority are spoken by a relatively small number of people. About 94% of the world"s population speaks only 389 languages (6%) Proto-language: an ancestral language from which several language families or languages are descended (ex: proto indo-european spoken in eastern anatolia and the.
