Vocab
Distribution of Languages and Language Families
Cultural Landscape
Origin and Diffusion of English
Miscellaneous
100
Regional variation of language.
Dialect
100
The continent people think language started from.
Africa
100
The three varieties of expansion.
Hierarchical, contagious, and stimulus
100
Give two examples of countries that English is not an official language, but is the most spoken language.
U.S.A, Canada, Australia
100
These parts of a culture are slowest to change.
Mentifacts
200
Idea that cultures can be separate and distinct, but still be able to co-exist.
Multiculturism
200
Language branch of Indo-European with the most speakers.
Indo-Iranian
200
Japanese people wearing jeans is an example of...
Acculturation
200
English gets its simple words from ___ and more complex words from ___.
German, France
200
If a language is used daily by all ages, it is this type of language.
Developing
300
Force that tends to unify people.
Centripetal force
300
Name four language families spoken in East Asia.
Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Austronesian, Austro-Asiatic, Tai-Kadai
300
Gay spaces, gendered spaces, ethnic neighborhoods etc. are examples of this.
Sense of place
300
English evolved mainly from the languages of these three groups.
The Angles, the Jutes, and the Saxons
300
Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Devanagari are examples of this.
Orhtography
400
Symbols that represent words or meaningful parts or words.
Logograms
400
The major language of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
Arabic
400
A negative aspect of this could be loss of indigenous language.
Cultural convergence
400
The Angles' island was called this.
Engles
400
Russian, Polish, and Serbian are parts of this branch and this family.
Balto-Slavic and Indo-European.
500
When two or more cultural traits interact with each other.
Culture complex.
500
The three main Niger-Congo languages.
Yoruba, Igbo, and Swahili
500
The Avalon is an example of this.
Placemaking
500
After English diffused from England to North America, it diffused to...
Ireland
500
This type of cultural landscape is shown in this picture.
Evidence of sequent occupancy.