Cultural vocab

4. Countries in which only one language is spoken
7. When cultures come into contact and a less dominant culture adopts some of the traits of the more influential or dominant one
8. A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
9. a Spanish-speaking neighborhood in a town or city
11. the social process by which immigrants from a particular town follow one another to a different city
12. a boundary line between two distinct linguistic regions

1. Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
2. The practice of particular customs of a relatively small group of people that increases that group's uniqueness
3. Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
5. belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect
6. Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion
10. a regional variation of a language that can be distinguished by its distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and spelling