Language Classification
A language that is the official language of at least one country or province
What is an Institutional Language?
A language in which the childbearing generation is no longer capable of teaching it to their children
What is a a Dying Language?
This religion spread first through relocation diffusion, then through hierarchical and contagious diffusion
What is Christianity?
This religious structure for assembly is often built open to the air facing Mecca, the direction to which all Muslims pray
What is a Mosque?
This system has led to centuries of division within Hindu society in India
What is the caste system?
A language that is commonly spoken but lacks a literary tradition
What is an Institutional Language?
A relatively recent process that is responsible for an increase in dying languages
What is Globalization?
This religion largely left its original hearth and spread via merchants and missionaries to its current majority countries
What is Buddhism?
This branch of a major religion tends to name places and cities after religious figures
What is Catholicism?
What is Jerusalem?
A language that many speak as a means to facilitate trade or inter-lingual communication
What is a Lingua Franca?
These three regions have the largest numbers of dying languages in the world
What are North America, Latin America, and the South Pacific?
This religion originally spread via hierarchical diffusion from conquest, but later spread via relocation and contagious diffusion via trade
What is Islam?
Instead of being places of religious assembly, pagodas are built to house pieces of this religion's founder's remains and/or clothing
What is Buddhism?
This religious fundamentalist group has taken control over Afghanistan in opposition to western values
What is the Taliban?
This language is the official language of many countries despite most in those countries not speaking it
What is English?
A language that used to be regularly spoken, but is not used in daily speech anymore
What is an extinct language?
Most Jewish people today live in this country, thanks to relocation diffusion by migrants
What is the United States?
This large ethnic religion has no central place of worship due to its lack of institutional hierarchy
What is Hinduism?
This economic and political ideology is often hostile to organized religion, especially in Asia
What is Communism?
These languages are the official languages of India
What are Hindi and English?
A common tactic governments use to prevent languages from dying, such as with Welsh in Wales
What is making languages an official language/teaching it in schools/etc.?
This religion has seen 25% of its living practitioners migrate from one country to another during their lifetime, compared to the world average of 3%
What is Judaism?
The type of calendar used by Islam, Judaism, and many Chinese folk religions, often connected to historical agricultural holidays and resulting in holidays being celebrated at different times each year
This ongoing policy of the Government of Israel is considered by many to be the greatest source of conflict with Palestinians
What is Israeli settlement in the West Bank?