APHG Culture and Language

What is the largest language branch in terms of spoken by most people?

• Afro-Asiatic
• Indo-European
• Sino-Tibetan
• Austronesian

Which is NOT one of the 4 main branches of the Indo-European language family?

• Germanic
• Romance
• Balto-Slavic
• Sino-Tibetan

What is NOT a reason for the origin and diffusion of Romance languages

• The spread of the Roman Empire and its lingua franca Latin
• The collapse of the Roman Empire and its lingua franca Latin
• The isolation of many forms of Latin and their evolution into dinstinct languages
• The mountainless uniform topography which kept cultures similar and united

Latin octo (eight) became Italian otto, Spanish ocho, and French huit. This is an example of a

• deterioration
• cognate
• dialect
• isogloss

a language developed from a mixture of different languages, usually through colonization. 

• creole language
• mix language
• hybrid language

a creole language based largely on 18th-century French with influences from Portuguese, Spanish, Taíno, and West African languages. The largest creole-speaking community in the world.

• Haitian creole
• Jamaican creole
• Sanandresano creole
• Swahili

In terms of diffusion, what is a hearth?

• The point of origin
• The final destination
• The mid-way point
• All points along the diffusion route

The clearest example of a folk culture today in the US is

• Hispanics in southwest Florida
• Catholics in the northeast U.S.
• Harlem in New York City
• Amish of southeast Pennsylvania

practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture and generates misunderstanding, ignorance and conflict 

• Ethnosuperiorism
• Egotism
• Ethnocentrism
• Human nature

To put aside his or her own cultural preferences and consider another culture based on its own people’s needs and values  

• Cultural relativism
• Cultural Openmindedness
• Zen culture master
• Common sense