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these necessities apply to both people of folk and popular culture.
food, clothing, and shelter
Folk music worldwide often draws on these themes to tell stories or convey information.
life-cycle events (birth, death, marriage) or environmental features (agriculture, climate)
Why is English a widespread language?
British colonialism, the US is an economic powerhouse.
What separates dialects from each other?
Vocab, Pronunciation, Spelling
The cultural hearths of folk and popular culture differ, coming from these innovation centers.
anonymous hearths/sources and a specific traceable person/corporation
his sport originated from folk culture but has become one of the most popular sports in the world today. (+1 if you get where it originated from)
Soccer, originated in england
What is a langua franca?
A language of international communication that facilitates trade.
What is an endangered language?
A language children are no longer learning and that fluent parents are no longer teaching so use is decreasing.
Researchers noticed this when studying the religious and cultural groups in the Himalayan mountains of Bhutan, Nepal, northern India, and Southern Tibet. Hint: interaction + diffusion
limited interaction despite proximity
These reasons prove sports are both part of popular culture and folk culture.
sports viewing/spectators and team identities
What is the difference between a language family, branch, group?
family: collection related through common ancestral language existing long before recorded history.
branch: collection within a family several thousand years ago.
group: a collection in a branch that shares common origin that is relatively recent.
What is a creolized language?
language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with an indigenous language (ex: French creole in Haiti)
These innovations have become increasingly popular in Africa, where electricity and landline services are limited.
cell phones
Folk clothing can depend on these factors.
environmental, cultural, and religious factors
Why are there so many languages in Africa?
Africa is likely where civilization started and language began to develop allowing it to have the most time to develop in this region.
What is mutual intelligibility?
The ability of people speaking in two ways to readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.
This lack of access affects the distribution of popular culture around the world.
lack of access to electronic media
Popular culture can affect marketing due to this pattern (applies to food and clothing)
Some products/brands are more popular in other areas due to advertising, climate, government, and more.
What is an ethnologue?
classifies languages as institutional, developing, vigorous, threatened, or dying.
what is the only language that has been revived from being extinct
Hebrew