GEOGRAPHY I
How many people speak English as their 1st language?
328 million
Who were the 3 tribes from Denmark that invaded England in the 5th Century
Angles, Jutes, Saxons
What are the 2 most common types of building material for houses?
Wood & Brick
A restriction on social behavior imposed by social customs
Taboo
The language with the most native born speakers
Mandarin/ Chinese
People living in the Midwest and Northwest refer to soft drinks as this
Pop
What are the 2 basic types of material culture?
Popular and Folk
The 5th most widely used contemporary Romance language
Romanian
The sum of the effects of the local environment on a particular food item
Terroir
Refers to a regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation
Dialect
What is the most commonly spoken Afro-Asiatic language?
Arabic
Is used by the government for laws, reports and public objects (road signs, money, etc.)
Official Language
A system of communication through speech or a collection of sounds that a group of people understand to have the same meaning
Language
The most dominant lingua franca in the world
English
What percent of the world speaks an Indo-European language?
46%
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed thousands of years ago
Language Branch
A particular dialect of English associated with upper class Britons living in the London area
British Received Pronunciation
Comes from the term 'the masses' of the populace and was not the standard form, but the spoken form
Vulgar Latin
The percent of world's population that speaks a Sino-Tibetan language
21%
Known as the 'click' language
Khosian
What are the 4 main branches of the Indo-European Language Family?
Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Balto- Slavic, Romance
What are the 4 religious groups affected by Himalayan Art?
Animists, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists
What are the 3 examples of U.S. folk housing style hearths?
Lower Chesapeake, Middle Atlantic, New England
Culture is a combination of what 3 things?
Values, Political Institutions, Material Artifacts
An example of reviving an extinct language
Hebrew