Folk Culture
This is traditionally practiced by small, homogeneous groups living in rural areas
What is folk culture?
What is popular culture?
Angles, Jutes and Saxons
Who are the three Germanic tribes that invaded the British Isles?
A language of international communication, such as English
What is a lingua franca?
A system of communication through the use of speech
What is language?
It tells a story or conveys information about daily activities such as farming or life-cycle events
What is folk music?
What is popular music?
Pronunciations, spellings and vocabulary
How is British English different from American English?
Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan
What are the two largest language families?
The system of writing used in China
What are ideograms?
This type of diffusion allows folk culture to spread to other places
What is relocation diffusion?
The area in New York City that at one time was home to many songwriters, music publishers, orchestrators and arrangers.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
The regional variation of a language which could have its own vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.
What is dialect?
Spanish, French and Italian
What are romance languages?
The form of Latin used in daily conversation by Ancient Romans
What is vulgar latin?
This sport is an example of folk culture diffusing into popular culture
What is soccer?
The most popular housing style, it can trace its roots back to the late 1960's.
What is the neo-eclectic housing style?
This invasion in the year 1066 led to the evolution of the English language from German
The Norman Invasion
This is the largest language family in Africa
What is the Niger-Congo language family?
This is an example of an extinct language that has been revived
What is Hebrew?
What is isolation?
Nature being modified, a uniform landscape and an increase in pollution
What are ways popular culture is impacting the environment?
New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Delaware, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, New Hampshire
Where did the English language first diffuse in North America? (13 Original Colonies)
Basque would be a prime example of this
What is an isolated language?
The Southern and Northern Belgians who speak a dialect of Dutch
Who are the Flemings and Walloons?