Vocab
A dying language means
What is still used by older people but is not being transmitted to children?
____ language is used in public schools.
What is official language?
Popular culture diffuses primarily through
What is electronic media?
Ethnologue classifies language
What is institutional language?
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.
What is dialect?
A centripetal force is
What is a cultural value that tends to unify people?
Most spoken language is
What is Chinese?
Popular culture can produce
What is uniform landscapes?
More than 90 percent of the people in the world use a language that belongs to one of
What is seven language families?
A Language that is written and spoken is
What is a literary tradition?
Centrifugal force is
What is a cultural value that tends to pull people apart?
The European Union recognizes ___ official and working languages
What is 24?
People turn from folk to popular culture, they might turn from
What is society traditional values?
English belongs to the ________ group of the Germanic language branch
What is West Germanic?
Frequent repetition of an act that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act is
What is custom?
Boundary that separates regions in which different language usage predominates is
What is isogloss?
English is an official language in __ countries
What is 56?
Popular culture can modify or control
What is environment?
Most widely used Slavic language is the eastern one. Give an example
What is Russian?
The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people.
What is culture?
What is the ability of people communicating in 2 ways to readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort?
What is mutual intelligibility?
The United Nations has ___ official and working languages
What is 6?
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
What is folk culture?
4 most widely used contemporary Romance languages are ______. List one example of the 4.
What is Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian?
A language in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.
What is a developing language?