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Arabic
Literacy language of the Koran; the language and culture of the Arabs
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back translation
translating from one language into another and then translating back into the origional to compare the result to avoid errors in translation
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creole
- -new language that developed from prolonged contact of two or more languages
- -creole is acquired by children as their first language
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cultural invasion
term used by Freire to refer to one group penetrating the culture of another group to impose its own view of the world
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dialect
a variety of speech differing from the standard
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Esperanto
widely used universal language devised in 1887 based on European vocabularies and Latin grammar
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grammar
linguistic rules governing sounds (or gestures in sign language), meanings, and syntax of a language
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idiom
expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its words
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Islam
World's 2nd largest religion with nearly 1 billion followers that is based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad, believing in one God, and having a body of law put forth in the Koran and the sunnah
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Koran
Holy book of Islam considered to contain the literal words of Allah or God; the Arabic text includes stories, admonitions, verse, and prophetic segments (often spelled Quran)
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language
set of symbols shared by a community to communicate meaning and experience
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literacy rate
percentage of ppl, age 15 and older, who can, with understanding, both read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life
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mother tongue
parent language of other languages or a person's first learned language
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pidgin
mixture of 2 or more languages to form a new language
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
useful way of thinking about the relationship btw language and culture (also known as Whorfian thesis and linguistic relativity) (language creates ways of thinking and perceiving objects or events)
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syntax
grammatical rules governing the way that words combine to form sentences
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