Cultural sphere

Cultural sphere

The term cultural sphere expresses an understanding of culture as attached to an ethnolinguistic group and the territory it inhabits. The "spheres of influence" considered may however overlap or form concentric structures of macrocultures encompassing smaller local cultures.

Examples:

individual languages

geographic

religious

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