Types of Diffusion
Historic Causes
Contemporary Causes
Diffusion of Language
Say what?
100

The spread of a cultural trait through the migration of people

What is relocation?

100
The dominance of one country over another country through diplomacy or force

What is imperialism?

100

As a cultural trait diffuses, the people who adopt it might alter it. Things change over distance and time.

What is friction of distance?

100

The largest language family

What is Indo-European?

100

Flat

What is an apartment?

200

The spread of a cultural trait through the interaction between people

What is expansion?

200

When a powerful country establishes settlements in a less powerful country for economic and/or political gain

What is colonialism?

200

The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world without regard to borders or barriers.

What is globalization?

200

The second largest language family, it is concentrated in East and Southeast Asia.

What is Sino-Tibetan?

200

Lift

What is an elevator?

300

Time-space compression and globalization have accelerated ________ diffusion via the internet and smart phones

What is contagious?

300

An extremely simplified limited non-native language...spoken in Hawaii for example

What is pidgin?

300

DAILY DOUBLE

KPOP is an example of cultural _________, the process of two or more cultures coming into contact with each other and adopting each other's traits to become more alike.

What is convergence?

300

Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian belong to this branch

What are romance languages?

300

Loo

What is a bathroom?

400

Cell phones were first only owned by the wealthy in large cities, overtime they became mass-produced and spread to a wider market.

What is hierarchial?

400

World lingua franca language

What is English?

400

The results of time-space convergence and the widespread diffusion of popular culture. The loss of indigenous _______ for example.

What is language?

400

DAILY DOUBLE

English grows on this branch

What is Germanic?

400

Wardrobe

What is a closet?

500
McDonald's veggie burgers in India for example

What is stimulus?

500

The world's most spoken language

What is Mandarin?

500

In Turkey, the ________ are forbidden by the government to print or formally teach their language.

Who are the Kurds?

500

tennis shoe....sneaker, soda.....pop for example

What is an American isogloss?

500

Torch

What is a flashlight?