3.7 Vocab, Diffusion of Religion and Language

What is the term for a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages?

• Creole

• Dialect

• Hybridity

• Indigenization

What is the process of cultural and linguistic change brought about by contact between different cultures called?

• Proselytize

• Transculturation

• Indigenization

• Syncretism

What is the term for the condition of being made up of multiple cultures or languages?

• Creole

• Dialect

• Hybridity

• Linguistic imperialism

What is the term for the act of converting someone to a particular religion or belief?

• Indigenization

• Transculturation

• Syncretism

• Proselytize

What is the term for the spread of a language or culture from its point of origin to other parts of the world?

• Diffusion

• Transculturation

• Creole

• Dialect

What is the term for the study of how languages change over time?

• Synchronics

• Diachronics

• Proselytize

• Indigenization

What is the term for the study of how language is used in context?

• Diachronics

• Synchronics

• Sociolinguistics

• Creole

What is the term for a language that is used as a common means of communication among speakers of different languages?

• Creole

• Dialect

• Indigenization

• Lingua franca

What is the term for the process of making a language or culture dominant over others?

• Hegemony

• Hybridity

• Creole

• Dialect

What is the term for the way in which language and culture interact?

• Proselytize

• Linguoculture

• Indigenization

• Transculturation