Chapter 5: Geo of Language/Religion

Question 1

Top 5 language globally

Answer 1

Chinese
Spanish
English
Arabic
Hindi

Question 2

Example of a toponym

Answer 2

Mount McKinley in Alaska being renamed to Denali to honor native people who lived there

Question 3

Language family

Answer 3

based on a common language history

Question 4

4 language branches

Answer 4

Romance, Germanic, Celtic, Indo European

Question 5

Dialect

Answer 5

established by the founder of the area

Question 6

Pidgin language

Answer 6

second language

simplified grammar and vocab from different languages

Question 7

Creole language

Answer 7

Pidgin language becomes first language

first language is lost

Question 8

Lingua franca

Answer 8

language that is spoken where two languages don’t match up

Question 9

European Union preserving language

Answer 9

support regional and cultural languages

Question 10

Judaism where do they live?

Answer 10

ghettos in big cities

Question 11

Orthodox judaism

Answer 11

high TFR, high intermarriage

Question 12

Eruv

Answer 12

Jews cannot carry objects on Sabbath over the line that stretches around the neighborhood

Question 13

Islam - where is it dominant? how do they pray?

Answer 13

in its hearth region of Middle East

pray towards Mecca (very precise)

Question 14

Christianity

Answer 14

focused on sending missionaries

hierarchical diffusion

Question 15

Where are these religion dominant?

Baptist, Mormon, Lutheran, CRC

Answer 15

Baptist = Bible belt in the south
Mormon = Utah, Idaho, Colorado
Lutheran = Minnesota, South North Dakota
Reformed = West Michigan, Iowa

Question 16

Fundamentalism

Answer 16

reaction against the modern world and reverting back to fundamental religious values