Culture/culture landscape/language

Acculturation

Acculturation

The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains distinct cultural features and the term used to describe the adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society

Assimilation.

The process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group or the process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture

Contagious diffusion.

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

Creole.

A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

Cultural landscape.

An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area or Cultural attributes of an area often used to describe a place (e.g., buildings, theaters, places of worship)

Culture regions

A formal or functional region within which common cultural characteristics prevail

Culture trait.

The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture

Dialect.

Regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

Folk culture.

Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group with living in relative isolation from other groups

Hearth

A place from which an innovation or idea originates.

Hierarchical diffusion.

The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or note of authority or power to other persons or places.

Isogloss

A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.

Language convergence.

2 languages merging.

Language divergence

One language splitting apart to make new languages

Language family/language tree.

A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.

Lingua franca.

Language that is used to do business or trade in a area of the world

Loan words.

terms used in one language that have an origin in another language

Pidgin language

A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.

Placelessness

The idea that as a culture becomes more globalized, The landscape changes to reflect that. Therefore, places seem to start to look the same even though they are in different geographic areas.

Popular culture.

Culture found in a large, Heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences and other personal characteristics.

Relocation diffusion.

The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.

Reverse hierarchical diffusion.

when culture spreads from the bottom of a hierarchy to other parts that are considered the bottom, which completely bypasses the top

Standard language or official language.

The form of a language used for official government, business, education, and mass communication

Stimulus diffusion.

when an idea diffuses from its cultural hearth outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters.

Taboo.

a restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

Toponym

Place names or the name given to a portion of Earth's surface.