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When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.
私達が言語は文化的に伝えられる、つまり、学習されるものであって受け継がれるものではないと言う場合、言語は、文化人類学者が文化と呼ぶ、学習され共用される行動の複合体の一部であるという事なのである。  

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