Vocabulary
A collection of languages relate to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
What is a language family?
Culture found in a large heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
What is Popular Culture?
What are 3 languages that are included in the romance branch?
Portuguese, Spanish, French, Romanian, Italian
Arabic, English, Spanish, Russian, French, Mandarin
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
What is an isolated language?
Culture traditionally practiced by a small homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
What is Folk Culture?
Name a country that has English as its official language?
Ireland, New Zealand, Nigeria
What is a taboo for muslims?
Eating pork and consuming alcohol
A language that is written as well as spoken.
What is a literary tradition?
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
What is language?
What are the names of the 4 language branches?
Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Romance
What is a popular language from the Indo-Iranian language branch?
Hindu, Urdu, Persian
The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.
What is terrior?
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
What is Cultural Homogenization?
What is the name of one of the two largest language families?
Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan,
What is the official language of the US?
The US does not have an official language.
A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.
What is Vulgar Latin?
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as in language families. The relationship between the languages can be confirmed.
What is a language branch?
What is the name of the 3 main language families in Africa?
Afro-Asiatic, Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan
What is a country that has more than one official languages?
India, Belgium, Switzerland, Singapore, Luxembourg, South Africa, Bolivia