Unit 3 Culture Review

When languages are depicted as leaves on trees, the trunk of the tree represents

• dialects

• language groups

• language families

• creolized languages

Why is English the most widely spoken language in Canada and the U.S.?

• The Norman Conquest

• Viking Explorations of the New World

• British Colonialism

• The Internet

What is the second largest language family?

• Indo-European

• Afro-Asiatic

• Sino-Tibetan

• Austronesian

This pictures demonstrates how language can make the cultural landscape more

• unique

• homogenous

• uniform

• unfriendly

How could the document below help preserve a dying language?

• it demonstrates official government support

• when people fill out documents they show they are literate

• people who speak minority languages pay lower taxes

• the language on the document is widely used on the internet

This chart is evidence that English is a

• pidgin language

• official language

• dialect

• lingua franca

Why is the extinction of languages a problem?

• it isn't; it would be better if everyone spoke English

• It isn't, it would be better if everyone spoke Chinese

• It is better if you can't understand what some people say

• When a language dies, part of the culture dies with it

A creolized language results from

• homogeneity

• extinction

• literary traditions

• acculturation

A ________ is a place name that reveals what is important to people and what the land is like.

• logogram

• lingua franca

• official language

• toponym

Hierarchical diffusion means that the culture is diffused 

• from place to place in a random way
• from those in authority or the famous
• because of popular culture
• from culture to culture