Dialect
Language
Culture
Vocabulary
Potpouri
100

What is an example of an English dialect that is hard to understand from an outsiders view? (we watched a video on it)

What is an Appalachian accent? 

100

What are examples of lingua franca?

English, French, Spanish, etc

100

What is culture greatly interrelated to?

What is environment?

100

What is an artifact?

An item of culture, including tools, housing, systems of land use, clothing, etc.

100

What are the four major dialects of the US?

What are Northern, Midland, Western, and Southern dialects?

200

What are the two main causes that make dialects develop?

What is location and time?

200

What are the three main types of informal language?

Franglais, Denglish, and Spanglish are all examples of

200

Tailgating and the half-time show in the Super Bowl would be an example of..

What is a culture complex?

200

What is isogloss?

A boundary that separates regions in which different language is dominate.

200

At a quinceaƱera, what would be examples of artifacts?

The food eaten, the music listened to, the style of the dress, the theme/color scheme of the party, etc.

300

Why is sometimes difficult to distinguish a language from a dialect?

It is difficult to distinguish individual languages from dialects because many languages share similar words and pronunciations, since dialects stem from languages, which stem from a common ancestral trait.

300

17th century England colonizing North America, parts of Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific lead to..

What is diffusion of English?

300

What are the two main things that divide a culture?

What are language and religion?

300

What is a language branch?

A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago

300

Which language branch was derived from Vulgar Latin, and formed the sub-group Italics on the Indo-European language family?

What is the Romance branch?

400

What causes difference in words/vocab that are from the same language?

 As countries and their people are isolated from other countries, things like their climate, geography, and other factors can influence new vocabulary or words being added.

400

What are two examples of organizations that have several working languages that are recognized?

What are the United Nations and the European Union?

400

Electronics and technology can help do what to a culture?

What is helping culture diffuse?

400

What is a creolized language?

What is a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

400

Why are old words being given new meaning as culture ages?

As new generations are born, they take words already in the language and give them new meaning. This is how culture develops further.

500

What causes a dialect to become a language?

As countries and regions become more isolated and their dialects change over time, they can eventually separate and become their own languages.

500

What is the difference between a language branch and a language family?

A language family is a collection of languages that are connected by a common 'related' ancestral language, and were before recorded history. Language branches  are a collection of languages that related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago

500

What is happening to folk culture?

With the quick spread of pop culture via technology, folk culture, customs, and landscape are slowly dying.

500

What is the definition of pidgin?

A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages

500

Things like religion and national holidays that bring people together would be an example of?

What are centripetal forces?