AP HUMAN TEST : LANGUAGE Flashcards
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| 5554846218 | examples of folk culture | -small, isolated groups -homogenous groups -clustered -clothing reflects culture -traditional | 0 | |
| 5554846219 | examples of pop culture | -large groups of people -heterogenous groups -dispersed -shares custom -clothing reflect occupation | 1 | |
| 5554846220 | True or False? The internet can actually help a minority culture survive with blogs and language sites. | True | 2 | |
| 5554846221 | Folk | -religious -family centered -male dominance -modest -extended family -wattle & stone homes -no internet | 3 | |
| 5554846222 | Pop | -secular -materialistic -promiscuous -women's rights -nuclear family -standard homes -internet | 4 | |
| 5554846223 | how does pop culture diffuse? | hierarchally through major cities like NYC, LA, London, Chicago | 5 | |
| 5554846224 | how does folk culture diffuse? | relocation by movement of amish people from PA to kentucky | 6 | |
| 5554846225 | taboos for Hindi | don't eat beef | 7 | |
| 5554846226 | taboos for Muslim, halal, jews | don't eat pigs | 8 | |
| 5554846227 | which two technologies do folk culture protectors fear the most? | diffusion of TV &a diffusion of the internet | 9 | |
| 5554846228 | what do these have in common: english-navaho english-cherokee mandarin-tibetan english-scottish spanish-catalonian english-aboriginal lang. | first killed the second by destroying their language | 10 | |
| 5554846229 | why is ones language vital for culture consistency? | without language, culture cannot be transmitted | 11 | |
| 5554846230 | what is a literary tradition? | any language that is written...it helps maintain cultural continuity | 12 | |
| 5554846231 | what are ideograms? | symbols...non-alphabetic | 13 | |
| 5554846232 | would ethnic or universalizing faiths be concerned with converting languages into a literary tradition? | universalizing | 14 | |
| 5554846233 | which universalizing religion has had the most success at converting almost all languages into a literary form? | christianity, not islam bc they have to read in arabic | 15 | |
| 5554846234 | how many languages are spoken today? | 4,000-8,000 | 16 | |
| 5554846235 | why such a wide confidence interval? | depends on definition | 17 | |
| 5554846236 | is music,math and dance a language | YES | 18 | |
| 5554846237 | what is language divergence? | dialects becoming a distinct language | 19 | |
| 5554846238 | what is required for language divergence ? | time & isolation | 20 | |
| 5554846239 | what happened to vulgar latin after rome fell? | collapse of the empire romance languages | 21 | |
| 5554846240 | what is a collection of related languages with a "prehistoric" ancestor? | language family | 22 | |
| 5554846241 | what is the largest language family? | indo-european is 50% | 23 | |
| 5554846242 | what is the most common sino-tibetan language? | mandarin | 24 | |
| 5554846243 | what are the two most common afro-asiatic languages | hebrew & arabic | 25 | |
| 5554846244 | what is a collection of related languages with a common ancestor? | language branch | 26 | |
| 5554846245 | what are 4 of the 8 major branches of indo-european? | germanic,romance,balto-salvic,indo-iranian | 27 | |
| 5554846246 | is hellenic indo-european? | yes | 28 | |
| 5554846247 | what is a standard language? | the official dialect that sets the quality, which is a matter of cultural identity and national concern | 29 | |
| 5554846248 | give an example of a standard language | chinese= mandarin spoken around bejing british english= british recieved pronunciation | 30 | |
| 5554846249 | is BRP a language? | NO | 31 | |
| 5554846250 | what is an isogloss | a transition zone surrounding a particular linguistic feature | 32 | |
| 5554846251 | what language is spoken by the most people as a primary language today? | mandarin english ranks second | 33 | |
| 5554846252 | True or False? in europe there is a high correlation between languages spoken &a political boundaries | true SW europe is romance NW europe is germanic E europe is slavic | 34 | |
| 5554846253 | what is an isolated language? | not related to any other language | 35 | |
| 5554846254 | what is the largest isolated language? | korean & basque | 36 | |
| 5554846255 | what is the oldest isolated language ? | khoisan | 37 | |
| 5554846256 | what physical features lead to language isolate? | mountain valleys or islands...20 are in the andes | 38 | |
| 5554846257 | what 2 language families are found in india? | Hindi=indo-european and has the most speakers Dravidian= is the second most spoken and is in SE | 39 | |
| 5554846258 | what is pinyin? | trying to turn mandarin into an alphabet | 40 | |
| 5554846259 | where is the hearth of pro indo-european languages? | stepped of ukraine & russia | 41 | |
| 5558459249 | what language was extinct only to emerge in the 20th century? | hebrew | 42 | |
| 5558459250 | what was vulgar latin? | poor peoples dialect | 43 | |
| 5558459251 | what is language replacement? | replacement or modification of language by stronger invaders of a less advanced people | 44 | |
| 5558459252 | is language replacement assimilation or acculturation? | acculturation | 45 | |
| 5558459253 | where is language replacement occurring today? | UK, USSR, Tibet, Spain, & Portuguese | 46 | |
| 5558459254 | what is the Esperanto experiment? | an effort to create a world language during the twentieth century | 47 | |
| 5558459255 | what is a lingua franca? | used when conducting business between other countries with different languages | 48 | |
| 5558459256 | what is a pidgin? | created out of a mixture of other languages as a means of communication between speakers of different tongues | 49 | |
| 5558459257 | what can pidgin also be called? | contact language or auxiliary language | 50 | |
| 5558459258 | if a parent teaches their child a pidgin & it becomes their primary language, is it still a pidgin? | no, it's a creole | 51 | |
| 5558459259 | what creole has become the lingua franca of East Africa? | swahili | 52 | |
| 5558459260 | what process is when a pidgin becomes a language? | creolization | 53 | |
| 5558459261 | True or False? Only a few true monolingual states are left in the modern world. | True...like japan, uruguay,iceland,portugal | 54 | |
| 5558459262 | does the USA have an official language? | Nl | 55 | |
| 5558459263 | where is the francophone world? | 56 | ||
| 5558459264 | what country is divided into a Dutch speaking region in the north and the french speaking in the south? | Belgium | 57 | |
| 5558459265 | what is linguistically and religiously occurring in Cyprus? | UN enforced buffer zome | 58 | |
| 5558459266 | is Afrikaans a creole? | yes, Dutch and Niger-congo words | 59 | |
| 5558459267 | what is the most commonly Niger-congo language spoken? | bantu | 60 | |
| 5558459268 | how are basque and khoisan similar? | isolated languages | 61 | |
| 5558459269 | what is language extinction? | no one speaks it, like tibetan | 62 | |
| 5564159943 | what is a haram? | something forbidden | 63 | |
| 5564159944 | what are two problems associated with the globalization of pop culture? | 1.threatens folk culture 2.harmful to the environment because of suburban areas and the carbon footprint | 64 | |
| 5564159945 | what is the most polite language? | japanese | 65 | |
| 5564295214 | what is exogamy? | marrying outside of your religious/cultural realm | 66 | |
| 5564295215 | where is the language family afro-asiatic spoken? | northern africa and the middle east....hebrew& arabic | 67 | |
| 5564295216 | what does BRP stand for? | British Received Pronuncition | 68 | |
| 5564295217 | what is the language for the parts of europe? | SW-romance NW-germanic E-slavic | 69 | |
| 5564295218 | what are the languages of Africa? | S-khoisan N-afro-asiatic rest of africa is Niger-Congo | 70 | |
| 5564295219 | what is the Conquest Theory? (aka kurgan hearth theory) | -one of the theories of proto-indo-european -spread west as people conquered the territory | 71 | |
| 5564295220 | what is the Agriculture Theory? (aka anatolian hearth theory) | -another theory of proto-indo-european -began in mountainous terrain -people sharing agriculture technique | 72 | |
| 5564295221 | what are the official languages of the UN? | -English -Spanish -French -Mandarin -Russian -Arabic | 73 | |
| 5564295222 | what are the few monolingual states? | -Japan -Uruguay -Venezuela -Iceland -Portugal -Poland -Lesotho | 74 | |
| 5586541397 | what are the stages of a language? (in order) | family branch group language dialect | 75 | |
| 5586541398 | Why do countries have a lingua franca? | -tech -navigation -education -pop culture -tourism -finance | 76 | |
| 5586541399 | Multilingual case study (Nigeria) | -colonial creation of almost unimaginable linguistic diversity -3 major regional languages -more than 12 major local languages spoken | 77 | |
| 5586541400 | multilingual case study (Canada) | -quebec speaks french bc they wanted to maintain local diversity | 78 | |
| 5586541401 | multilingual case study (belgium) | -2 languages spoken; french in south and flemish/ dutch in north | 79 | |
| 5586541402 | multilingual case studies (russia) | -during USSR the russian lang. became the lingua franca -lots of minority languages | 80 | |
| 5586541403 | multilingual case studies (cyprus) | -turkish in the north; greek and orthodox christian in south | 81 | |
| 5586541404 | multilingual case studies (switzerland) | (63%) (20%) (6.5%) -german, french, italian, (.5%) and romansh | 82 | |
| 5586541405 | multilingual case studies ( 1994 czechoslovakia) | -czech on west and slovak on east | 83 |