Religion
This is the belief that God does not exist.
Atheism
A type of diffusion where an innovation or concept spreads from those with more power and influence to those with less.
Hierarchical
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
Language Family
The kind of culture found in large heterogeneous societies.
Popular
Belief or worship in more than one God.
Polytheism
Diffusion type where something spreads widely & rapidly through a population.
Contagious
The language used by the government for conducting business & official documents.
Official Language
A neighborhood that retains some cultural distinction from a larger area.
Ethnic Enclave
This is the religion for which the Koran is the holy text.
Islam
A type of diffusion where one culture receives an innovation from another and gives it a new unique form.
Stimulus
Speech that adopts simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca and is used by speakers of two different languages for communication.
Pidgin
When a minority culture is absorbed into the culture of the majority.
Assimilation
The belief that nothing can be known about whether or not God exists.
Agnostic
This type of diffusion refers to when a cultural idea spreads from where it originated but also stays strong where it started.
Expansion
Term for a language that is not part of any language family.
Isolated
The feeling that one’s own ethnic group or culture is superior to others.
Ethnocentrism
This religion blends influences of Hinduism and Islam.
Sikhism
This type of diffusion is the spread and mingling of cultures that occurs when people migrate around the world.
Relocation
The common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
Proto-Indo European Language Tree
The idea that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
Sequent Occupante