Culture Lingo
Type of culture that is remote, isolated, and oftentimes, spread only through relocation diffusion.
Folk
The largest language family in the world is called?
Proto-Indo European
Pigeon
3 Germanic Tribes from the West Germanic Group that relocated to the English Isles & are the foundation of the English language?
Angles, Saxons, & Jutes
Word boundaries....calling a hogie a sub sandwich in Philly, but a sub sandwich being called a sub in Atlanta...right, Y'all or youz guys....
Isogloss
When one group feels compelled/forced to give up their entire culture, fully losing their original culture to the dominant culture
assimilation
While English shares the same family as French, their branches is where they diverge. What are both of these languages family and branches?
Pie
English- Germanic
French- Romance
When a pigeon is adopted and becomes a new language for future generations, combining many languages that have influenced them, this is called a?
Creole
The Normans came to the British Isles from where? and brought their fancy language with them.
France
Geographically distinct versions of a single language with variations in speech, spelling, vocabulary, and speed of speech.
BRP is the standard of these in the UK.
Dialect
Artifacts
The most spoken language in the world is?
Mandarin
The official language of the US is?
Trick question...none.
The Standard Dialect of the English is? & stands for?
Fancy richies....
BRP
British Received Pronunciation
This was a dying language that has been brought back to life by celebrations like Bar Mitzvah & the foundation of Israel as a country in 1948?
Hebrew
The stories of Abraham in the Qu'ran, Bible, and Torah are all examples of this part of culture, the non-material parts of culture, called:
mentifacts
According to this theory, PIE originated from farmers. What is the theory?
Anatolian Hearth Theory
Swahili is often spoken throughout Eastern Africa when two groups do not speak the same language. This is the same, globally, for English. What are both of these languages examples of?
Lingua Francas
'Murica wanted to distinguish themselves from England & wanted their own language, with their own vocabulary, spelling, etc... Who led the charge in doing this & what did he create?
Webster's Dictionary
Creoles were often times a product of this horrific event in world history?
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
In changing your culture by adapting to new words or ways of your new culture, but still keeping much of your original culture, you are experiencing the process of what?
According to this theory, PIE originated from these people who dominated over others?
Who were they & what was their hearth?
Kurgans
Russia
This language varies so much in its language that the speakers have to use literary tradition in order to understand the varying dialects. The language is?
Chinese
This is the number one reason English is so global.
Effects of Colonization
What country has the most Spanish speakers?
2nd most?
Mexico
USA