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๐ŸšœAP Human Geography Review

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Religion and Language

๐ŸšœAP Human Geography
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Religion and Language

Written by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025
Verified for the 2026 exam
Verified for the 2026 examโ€ขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025

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Ethnic and Universalizing religions are two classifications of religion. Universalizing appeal to all people and have a specific founder, while ethnic religions are only practiced by certain people and they usually don't have a specific founder. Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism are the largest universalizing religions. Ethnic religions consists of Judaism, Hinduism, etc. Language families, branches,a and groups are divisions with in languages. Indo-European Language has the most speakers. Sin-Tibetan is the second largest language family. Mandarin is the largest language spoken by native speakers, while English is the largest language spoken by native and non-native speakers.