A language that is, widely distributed and purposely taught.
What is a standard language
100
The ______________ language family stretches across the greatest extent of territory and includes the greatest number of speakers
What is Indo- European
100
When people speaking 2 or more languages are in contact with each other and they combine parts of their language in a simplified structure and vocabulary
What is Pidgin language
100
A group of belief systems, norms, & values practiced by a people
What is Culture
100
Is a geographical term which describes the effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions.
What is Distance Decay
200
This means that two people can understand each other speaking
What is Multiple intelligibility
200
Languages that have a shared but distant origin
What is Language family
200
Countries in which only one language is spoken
What is Monolingual states
200
Things created by people like art, houses, clothing, sports, dance, and food
What is Material
200
A term used to describe processes that seem to accelerate the experience of time and reduce the significance of distance during a given historical moment
What is Time-Space Compression
300
Variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines are called....
What is Dialect
300
Language families are further broken down into
What is Subfamilies
300
A language used among speakers of different languages for the purpose of trade and commerce.
What is Lingua franca
300
Small, homogeneous population, typically rural and is cohesive traits
What is Folk Culture
300
Taking popular culture and making it your own.
What is Reterritorialization
400
A Ggographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs, but such a boundary is rarely a simple one
What is Isogloss
400
If people with different languages have consistent spatial interaction___________can take place, collapsing the two languages.
What is language convergence
400
A pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language of a group of people.
What is Creole language
400
The process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit
What is Cultural Appropriation
400
Agriculture took about________years to diffuse around the world.
What is 10,000
500
Language is ______ :new technologies, ideas, and products require new words
What is Dynamic
500
Spatial separation among speakers of a language breaks down the language into dialects and further isolation into discrete languages known to us as
What is language divergence.
500
Frankish language- it’s a mix with Italian ,Greek , Spanish, and Arabic it was used in the _______ commerce.
What is Mediterranean
500
A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community who share experiences, customs and traits to distinguish themselves from others.
What is Local Culture
500
In the pyramid of culture diffusion 17% is known as the