World Geography 1/31/24 Language and Cultural Diffusion Quiz

What is a major marker of identity that often unites members of the same nation or people with similar cultural identity?

• Language

• Religion

• Music

• Food

What is the term for a simplified language and small vocabulary combining two or more languages?

• Creole

• Dialect

• Pidgin

• Lingua Franca

What is the term for the process by which languages or ideas move thanks to people uprooting and resettling?

• Contagion diffusion

• Relocation diffusion

• Cultural appropriation

• Linguistic hearth

Which language family is home to the beginnings of proto-Bantu languages in Africa?

• Indo-European

• Sino-Tibetan

• Afro-Asiatic

• Niger-Congo

What is the term for languages that were adopted in an area to make communication easier between people who don’t originally speak the same language?

• Lingua Franca

• Pidgin

• Creole

• Dialect

What is the term for the process of restoring cultural connections to the past, like dormant languages and historical connections to current cultural traits?

• Cultural appropriation

• Cultural diffusion

• Cultural assimilation

• Cultural revitalization

What is the term for the movement and diffusion of language and other cultural traits?

• Relocation diffusion

• Cultural diffusion

• Linguistic hearth

• Cultural appropriation

What is the term for the process of innovations spreading just by exposing others to a new idea or object?

• Contagion diffusion

• Relocation diffusion

• Cultural assimilation

• Linguistic hearth