Artifacts, Sociofacts, Mentifacts
Diffusion
Vocabulary
Language Families and Branches
Potpurri
100

A girl's dress at her quinceañera 

Artifact

100

Covid 19

Contagious Diffusion

100

Regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling

Dialect

100

More than 90% of the world uses a language coming from this language family

Indo-European Language Family

100

Tiered Rice paddies are an example of...

Cultural Landscapes

200

family, government, or school; slower to change

Sociofacts 

200

Rap music starts in more urban areas, then spreads throughout the world

Hierarchal Diffusion 

200

looking at someone else's culture through their eyes rather than your own 

Cultural Relativism 

200

Spanish, Portugese, French, and Italian

Romance Language Branch

200

A sign with multiple languages on it is an example of ...

Multiculturalism

300
Slowest to change

Mentifact

300

People in North and South America speak certain languages because of the European settlers who lived their in the past

Relocation Diffusion 

300

Natural landscape modified by people to reflect their culture

Cultural Landscape

300

Secomd most used language family; includes Mandarin Chinese

Sino-Tibetan Branch

300

Looking at the food of another culture that is very different, and thinking it looks disgusting 

Ethnocentrism
400

The Johnson family are Catholic, and they have been going to church for years, but stop once the children reach high school. 

Sociofact
400

The McDonalds in India revise their menus to suit the dietary restrictions there (vegetarian/ no beef)

Stimulus Diffuision 

400

A force than tends to pull people apart

Centripetal Force

400

English, German, Dutch

Germanic Language Branch

400

The Hagia Sofi has been both a church and a mosque at different points in time. This is an example of...

Sequent Occupancy

500

The caste system used in India in the past 

Mentifacts

500

Missionaries seek noble/ highborn people to spread their religion

Hierarchical Diffusion 

500

The way a language is written

Orthography 

500

Majority of people in sub-Saharan Africa speak a language from this family  

Niger-Congo Family

500

Name the five different classifications of language

institutional language, developing language, vigorous language, threatened language, and dying language

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