Vocab
Language Family's and Branches
Folk and pop culture
Language Distribution
Dialects
100
A language of international communication well known.
What is a lingua franca?
100
Persian is a part of this language branch.
What is the Indo-Iranian branch?
100
Memes are an example of this type of culture.
What is pop culture?
100
Language originated from this place.
What is Africa?
100
These are the four major dialect groups in America.
What is North, Midland, South, and West?
200
A group that learns English or another lingua franca and mixing in some elements of their own language to communicate with speakers of another language.
What is a pidgin language?
200
This is the official language in Kenya, Rwana, Tanzania, and Uganda.
What is Swahili?
200
This type of culture is more likely to vary from place to place at a given time.
What is folk culture?
200
In these three countries, English is predominant but not the official language.
What is the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia?
200
English in the U.S differs from the English in England in these three significant ways.
What is vocab, spelling, and pronunciation.
300
Language used by people of all ages, but lacks literary tradition.
What is vigorous language?
300
These are the seven language families.
What is Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian, and Turkic?
300
This occurs when pop culture merges with traditional folk culture.
What is cultural convergence?
300
In the twentieth century, the U.S was responsible for diffusing English to these two places.
What is Spain and the Philippines?
300
This map is representative of the boundaries between dialects.
What is an isogloss?
400
The notion that successive societies leave behind their cultural imprint, a collection of evidence about human chracter and experience within a geographic region, which shapes the cultural landscape.
What is sequent occupance?
400
This language family is spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Niger-Congo?
400
An example of this term is that Jews keep kosher and that Muslims don't eat pork.
What is a food taboo?
400
A country that has multiple languages with little to no conflict is an example of this force.
What is centripetal force?
400
This term is for Appalachian dialects who speak standard english outside Appalachia but speak in their regional dialect at home.
What is bidialectic.
500
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What is a creole language?
500
Arabic is the major language of this family.
What is Afro-Asiatic?
500
Folk culture is getting harder to preserve because of this.
What are influences from the outside world?
500
People in two different locations use the same language because of this.
What is migration?
500
Upper class residents in London, Cambridge, and oxford use this standard language.
What is received pronunciation?