Diffusion
The spread of ideas, innovations or goods.
What is Diffusion?
Shared practices, technologies, attitudes and behaviors of a group.
What is Culture?
What is Language Family?
Only believing in one God
What is Monotheistic?
Adoption of cultural traits from another group
What is Acculturation?
The source of an idea or innovation
What is hearth?
A single element of normal practice in a culture,or a characteristic.
What is Cultural Trait?
Language of Trade used between speakers of different languages
What is Lingua Franca?
Believing in two or more Gods
When one culture adopts traits of another, losing its own
The spread through people moving and bringing their culture with them
What is Relocation Diffusion?
Belief in the superiority of one’s culture
What is Ethnocentrism?
A stable natural language developed from mixing
Creole Language
Religion that seeks to appeal to all people
What is Universalizing Religion?
The coexistence of several cultures in one society with the idea of all cultures being valued
Spreading outward from a heart, while remaining strong there
What is Expansion Diffusion?
Visible imprint of culture on the land
What is Cultural Landscape?
Simplified mixture of two languages that has fewer grammar rules and smaller vocabulary
What is Pidgin Language?
Does not actively seek to convert people, generally found near the heart or spread through relocation diffusion
What is Ethnic Religion?
Blending of two cultural traits into a new form
What is Syncretism?
Ideas spreading person-to-person through contact, like a disease
What is contagious diffusion?
Name given to a place or geographic feature
What is Toponym?
The boundaries(real or imaginary) between variations in pronunciations of word usage
What is Isogloss?