Ch4
What is a repetitive act performed by an individual?
Habit
The two largest language families are....
Indo European & Sino-Tibetan
What is the term to describe religions that attempt to be global by appealing to all people?
Universalizing religions
What are the two terms to describe the diffusion of Christianity?
Hierarchical & Relocation diffusion
What is the widespread distribution of businesses and products creates distinctive landscape stamps around the world?
Cultural Landscape
What is traditionally practiced by small, isolated, homogeneous groups in rural areas?
Customs
Russian falls under what branch of Indo-European language?
Balto-Slavic
What is the term describing religions that appeal primarily to one group of people living in one place?
Ethnic religions
What is a large and fundamental division within a religion?
A branch
What is widely distributed across many countries with little regard to physical factors?
Popular Culture
What sport in England diffused from a folk sport into popular culture?
Soccer
What is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation?
Dialect
What is a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination?
Romance Branch
It is theorized that Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian languages all stemmed from a common ancestral language known as what?
Proto-Indo-European
What type of culture diffuses slowly through process of migration?
Folk Culture
What are the boundaries of where regional words are used?
Isogloss
What is the largest branch of Islam?
Sunni
What is the most common language spoken in Africa?
Swahili
What is a language that no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world?
extinct language
What electronic development has rapidly increased the diffusion of culture?
Social Media
English has become the dominate world language. What is the term refers to a language of international communication?
lingua fanca
Territorial conflict erupted in Ireland between what two groups?
Catholics and Protestants
What is a restriction imposed by a social custom and is commonly believed to be negative if broken
Taboo
What is a language the is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.
Isolated language