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(Assorted Questions)
100
Creates a uniform cultural landscape.
What is Pop Culture
100
A repetitive act preformed by a small group of people.
What is a custom?
100
A regional variation of a language distinguished by spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary
What is Dialect
100
International language of communication. (Trade language)
What is Lingua Franca?
100
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
What is a language family
200
It generates excess waste from mass production.
What is an impact of pop culture?
200
A repeated act preformed by one person.
What is a habit?
200
The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.
What is British Received Pronoun?
200
This makes up 2/3 of the worlds languages.
What is Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan
200

Process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture

What are Assimilation?

300
Rules and regulations turn this object of folk culture into popular culture.
What is Sports?
300
A system of written communication or a language that is written as well as spoken
What is literary tradition?
300
Dialect spoken by some African Americans.
What is Ebonics
300
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
What is an isolated language
300
Art, and recreation are an example of this cultural custom.
What are cultural leisure activities?
400
The way most popular culture is diffused.
What is Hierarchical diffusion?
400
This culture is found among homogeneous groups.
What is Folk Culture?
400
A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.
What is vulgar Latin
400
The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
What is standard language?
400

Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and life.

What is Animism?

500
the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people
What is material culture
500
The main theory of how the environment affects folk culture.
What is environmental possibilism?
500
A way of pronouncing words that indicates the geographical region, or social background of the speaker.
What is dialect?
500
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What is Creole/Creolized language
500
Franglais, Spanglish and Denglish
What are examples of pidgin languages?