Artifacts, Sociofacts, Mentifacts
A girl's dress at her quinceañera
Artifact
Covid 19
Contagious Diffusion
Regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling
Dialect
More than 90% of the world uses a language coming from this language family
Indo-European Language Family
Tiered Rice paddies are an example of...
Cultural Landscapes
family, government, or school; slower to change
Sociofacts
Rap music starts in more urban areas, then spreads throughout the world
Hierarchal Diffusion
looking at someone else's culture through their eyes rather than your own
Cultural Relativism
Spanish, Portugese, French, and Italian
Romance Language Branch
A sign with multiple languages on it is an example of ...
Multiculturalism
Mentifact
People in North and South America speak certain languages because of the European settlers who lived their in the past
Relocation Diffusion
Natural landscape modified by people to reflect their culture
Cultural Landscape
Secomd most used language family; includes Mandarin Chinese
Sino-Tibetan Branch
Looking at the food of another culture that is very different, and thinking it looks disgusting
The Johnson family are Catholic, and they have been going to church for years, but stop once the children reach high school.
The McDonalds in India revise their menus to suit the dietary restrictions there (vegetarian/ no beef)
Stimulus Diffuision
A force than tends to pull people apart
Centripetal Force
English, German, Dutch
Germanic Language Branch
The Hagia Sofi has been both a church and a mosque at different points in time. This is an example of...
Sequent Occupancy
The caste system used in India in the past
Mentifacts
Missionaries seek noble/ highborn people to spread their religion
Hierarchical Diffusion
The way a language is written
Orthography
Majority of people in sub-Saharan Africa speak a language from this family
Niger-Congo Family
Name the five different classifications of language
institutional language, developing language, vigorous language, threatened language, and dying language