Culture 1
The way of life of a group of people.
What is culture?
The culture influences people the most; pop or folk.
What is pop culture?
Something that brings people together. (centripital or centrifugal)
What is centripital?
Percent of internet content in English.
What is 50%?
A language that results from mixing a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What is creole/creolized language?
Objects, material items, and technology.
What is artifacts?
Adopting a bit of another's culture, but still maintaining their own.
What is acculturation?
The language family English belongs to.
What is Indo-European?
Six official working languages. (by the UN)
What is Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and Russian?
With enough time and enough distinction between dialects, a dialect become this.
What is a new language?
The one that takes the most time to change out of artifacts, sociofacts, and mentifacts.
What is mentifacts?
Adopting another's culture as their own.
What is assimilation?
The language branch English belongs to.
What is Germanic?
Name ten official languages (There are more).
What is Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, ect?
A place name, local geography, something that honors famous people, something that reflects a part of history.
What is a toponym?
Shared ideas, values, religion, language, and viewpoint.
What is mentifacts?
Two cultures or parts of culture combining to make a completely different thing. (1+2=3)
Syncretism
The language group English belongs to.
What is West-Germanic?
There are mixes of languages. Name one.
What is Franglais, Danglish, Spanglish, etc?
The way a language is written, more specifically; Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, and ideographic.
What is orthography?
Structure, organization, social behavior.
What is sociofacts?
The three types of Expansion.
What is hierarchical, contagious, and stimulus?
The two most common language families used today throughout the world.
What is Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan?
A group of people speaking the same language as another group of people lose contact or fail to interact often, which will cause this to form.
What is dialect?
In a language with multiple dialects, one dialect may be considered the...
What is standard language?