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Culture Lingo
3.14
Speaking Global
The History of Englishness
Lingo Stuff
100

Type of culture that is remote, isolated, and oftentimes, spread only through relocation diffusion.

Folk

100

The largest language family in the world is called?

Proto-Indo European

100
When two people meet, speaking different languages, and create their own basic, few vocabulary, and little grammar language to just understand each other, this is called a/an?

Pigeon

100

3 Germanic Tribes from the West Germanic Group that relocated to the English Isles & are the foundation of the English language?

Angles, Saxons, & Jutes

100

Word boundaries....calling a hogie a sub sandwich in Philly, but a sub sandwich being called a sub in Atlanta...right, Y'all or youz guys....

Isogloss

200

When one group feels compelled/forced to give up their entire culture, fully losing their original culture to the dominant culture

assimilation

200

While English shares the same family as French, their branches is where they diverge.  What are both of these languages family and branches?

Pie


English- Germanic

French- Romance

200

When a pigeon is adopted and becomes a new language for future generations, combining many languages that have influenced them, this is called a?

Creole

200

The Normans came to the British Isles from where?  and brought their fancy language with them.

France

200

Geographically distinct versions of a single language with variations in speech, spelling, vocabulary, and speed of speech.  

BRP is the standard of these in the UK.

Dialect

300
The Qu'ran, the Bible, & the Torah are all physical objects created by a society to answer the questions about the unknown.  These physical objects are called:

Artifacts

300

The most spoken language in the world is?

Mandarin

300

The official language of the US is?

Trick question...none.

300

The Standard Dialect of the English is?  & stands for?


Fancy richies....

BRP

British Received Pronunciation

300

This was a dying language that has been brought back to life by celebrations like Bar Mitzvah & the foundation of Israel as a country in 1948?

Hebrew

400

The stories of Abraham in the Qu'ran, Bible, and Torah are all examples of this part of culture, the non-material parts of culture, called:

mentifacts

400

According to this theory, PIE originated from farmers.  What is the theory?

Anatolian Hearth Theory

400

Swahili is often spoken throughout Eastern Africa when two groups do not speak the same language.   This is the same, globally, for English.  What are both of these languages examples of?

Lingua Francas

400

'Murica wanted to distinguish themselves from England & wanted their own language, with their own vocabulary, spelling, etc...  Who led the charge in doing this & what did he create?

Webster's Dictionary

400

Creoles were often times a product of this horrific event in world history?

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

500

In changing your culture by adapting to new words or ways of your new culture, but still keeping much of your original culture, you are experiencing the process of what?

acculturation
500

According to this theory, PIE originated from these people who dominated over others?


Who were they & what was their hearth?

Kurgans

Russia

500

This language varies so much in its language that the speakers have to use literary tradition in order to understand the varying dialects.  The language is?

Chinese

500

This is the number one reason English is so global.

Effects of Colonization

500

What country has the most Spanish speakers?

2nd most?

Mexico


USA