The Hutterites, the Amish, and the Mennonites are part of this culture
What is Folk Culture (Rural Local Cuture will also be accepted)?
100
The most spoken language, by millions of speakers is what language.
What is Chinese?
100
FedEx Field, MCI Center, Fleet Center, and COors Field are examples of what kind of toponym (Post-Colonial, Post-Revolution, Memorial, Commodification)
What is Commodification?
100
Romanian, Spanish, Italian, and French are part of this subfamily.
What is Romance Languages?
200
A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs
What is Isogloss?
200
This type of culture incorporates heterogeneous populations, is typically urban, and experiences quickly changing cultural triats.
What is Popular Culture?
200
Hard consonants, such as the v and t in the German word vater, softened into vader Dutch), and father (English) is an example this.
What is Sound Shift?
200
A government renaming Gold Coast to Ghana is an example of this kind of toponym (Post-Colonial, Post-Revolution,Memorial, or Commodification)
What is Post-Colonial?
200
English is part of this subfamily.
What is Germanic Languages?
300
A pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has beome the native language of a group of people.
What is Creole Language?
300
Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, New York, and Italian Americans in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts are examples of this.
What is Ethnic Neighborhoods?
300
This process has happened between Spanish and Portuguese and is now happening with Quebecois and French.
What is Language Divergence?
300
Paradise Valley, Arizona is an example of which of the ten basic types of place-names proposed by George Stewart.
What is Commendatory?
300
This is the most prominent language family in Subsaharn Africa.
What is Niger-Congo Family?
400
When people speaking two or more languages are in contact and they combine parts of their languages in a simplified structure and vocabulary, we call it a __________ __________?
What is Pidgin Language
400
The diffusion of the skyscraper over the globe illustrates this.
What is Placelessness?
400
Japan, Uruguay, Venezuela, Denmark, and Portugal are examples of _______________ states.
What is Monoligual?
400
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (with the self-proclaimed longest name) is in what country.
What is Wales?
400
This language is believed to be the ancestral language of Proto-Indo-European.
What is Nostratic language?
500
The process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit (Local cultures work to avoid this)
What is Cultural Appropriation?
500
The hearth of a popular culture typically begins with this kind of diffusion.
What is Contagious Diffusion?
500
These three are explanations as to why Proto-Indo-European spread through Europe (Hint:one is a theory and the other two are hypothesis')
What is Conquest Theory, Dispersal Hypothesis, and Renfrew Hypothesis?
500
In the United States, this agency is responsible for deciding what toponyms appear on government-produced maps.
What is United States Board on Geographic Names?
500
Flemish is a ___________ language and French is a __________ language (ex. Slavic, Celtic, Blatic).