Geography - 30. How Does Language Move?

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

• Music

• Clothing

• Food

• Language

Which innovation or cultural change came from within different cultural groups about 15,000 years ago?

• Metalworking

• Agriculture

• Writing

• Pottery

What is the term used to describe the way ideas and things move around the world?

• Segregation

• Isolation

• Concentration

• Diffusion

What is the name of the language family from which all specific languages branch out like a tree?

• Major language family

• Lingua franca

• Creole language

• Language hearth

What is the term used to describe when languages or ideas move thanks to people uprooting and resettling?

• Linguistic hearth

• Cultural appropriation

• Contagion diffusion

• Relocation diffusion

What is the name of the simplified language combining two or more languages with a small vocabulary?

• Creole

• Pidgin

• Lingua franca

• Dialect

Which continent is home to about 6 language families that grew and diffused out of the 4 to 5 major linguistic hearths?

• North America

• Africa

• Europe

• Asia

What is the term used to describe when innovations spread just by exposing others to a new idea or object?

• Linguistic hearth

• Contagion diffusion

• Relocation diffusion

• Cultural appropriation

What is the term used to describe the process where other cultures adopt an instrument or cultural trait and erase its original roots?

• Cultural revitalization

• Cultural appropriation

• Linguistic diffusion

• Cultural assimilation

What is the name of the project that creates a space for people around the world to preserve and revive languages and other cultural traits at risk of going dormant?

• Global Heritage Preservation

• Endangered Languages Project

• Cultural Connections Initiative

• Language Revitalization Program