Vocab
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
What is a lingua franca?
A dialect boundary; shows where on a map a word is used
What is an isogloss?
The branch that the English, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch languages all belong to
What is the Germanic language branch?
What are artifacts?
If a language spread to every member of a country because authority figured spoke it, it would be this type of diffusion
What is hierarchical diffusion?
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
What is subsequent occupance?
The dialect native to the people of the mountains of the southeastern U.S.
What is Appalachian English?
The language family with the most native speakers in the world
What is Indo-European?
The group of "facts" that are slowest to change
What are mentifacts?
The modern invention that inspired a large diffusion of English to places it is not spoken natively
What is the internet?
A language that is used by an international organization or corporation as its primary means of communication for daily correspondence and conversation.
What is a working language?
How different dialects come into being
What is isolation/lack of spatial interaction?
Despite being a Germanic language, most (58%) of English words come from this language branch
What is the Romance language branch?
The group of "facts" that are most quickly changed and affected by pop culture
What are artifacts?
The type of diffusion that pop culture is
What is contagious diffusion?
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
What is a language group?
The three things that differ dialects of the same language from one another
What are vocabulary, spelling, and pronounciation?
The language family most prevalent in eastern Europe
What is the Balto-Slavic language family?
The group of "facts" associated with family traditions
What are sociofacts?
The globalization of culture
What is cultural convergence?
A language in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.
What is a developing language?
The name of the UK's standard dialect
Received Pronunciation
The language family Romanian belongs to
What is the Romance language family?
The idea held by hispanic cultures that "when a girl turns 15, she is a woman" would be this kind of "fact"
What is a mentifact?
When English was spread by Brits moving to the Carribean, it was this type of diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?