Language Families
What language family does English come from?
Indo-European
What two primary religions have taboos against pork and swine?
Judaism & Muslim
What is an extinct language?
What type of culture spreads primarily through Relocation diffusion?
Folk culture
the form of a language used for official government business education and mass communications
standard language
What language family does Mandarin come from?
Sino-Tibetan
What primary religion has a food taboos against beef?
Hinduism
What is the difference between a dying language and extinct language?
a dying language is dying because the language's culture is aging an extinct language is already not being used anymore.
What type of culture is the internet?
Popular culture
the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
official language
What language family does Yoruba come from? (Spoken in west Africa)
Niger-Congo
What is the word for a culture that believes a food has a negative force is called?
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
Lingua Franca
the reduction in cultural diversity through the popularization and diffusion of a wide array of cultural symbols not only physical objects but customs ideas and values
cultural homogenization
the dialect of English associated with upper class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the UK
British Received pronunciation
What language family does Filipino come from?
Austronesian
The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes
terrior
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary spelling and pronunciation
dialect
Language is in vigorous use with literature in a standardized form being used by some though this is not yet widespread of sustainable
Vigorous language
Institution charged with safeguarding the correct use of the Spanish language
spanish royal academy
What language family does Vietnamese come from?
Austro-Asiatic
the frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
custom
A language that is unrelated to any other languages & therefore not attached to any language family, is what type of language?
Isolated Language
In the 19th century soccer went from an English folk custom to pop culture phenomenon how did the game diffuse? (what type of diffusion)
Hierarchical diffusion
a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
Isogloss