GEOG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Official Language, Economic Mobility, Lingua Franca
13 Aug 2020
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The two key components for a cultural system for the most of the world is language and religion. Language is a central aspect of cultural identity. Is way of communicating ideas by means of a conventionalized system of signs, gestures, marks, or articulate vocal sounds: consists of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. Dialects are regional variations in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Languages are grouped into families, branches, and groups. Language families are a collection of individual languages believed to be related in their prehistorical origin. 50% of the world speak an indo-european family of language. Branches share a common origin but have split into individual languages. Fusion language developed through influences from several languages: garifuna example (page 191) Linguistic drift process of random changes to language as new words, speech patterns, etc. are adopted. Mother tongue language person learned from birth: icelandic example (one of the most unchanged languages)
