The transmission of culture from one generation to another is called

The transmission of culture from one generation to the next is enculturation.

Through it a person absorbs the language, values and norms of their own culture from birth onward.

Acculturation is the change that follows contact with a different culture, not this within-generation handing down.

Interculturation refers to exchange between cultures rather than passing one culture down the generations.

Assimilation is absorption of a group into a dominant culture with loss of the original, which is a distinct process.

Enculturation is how a culture reproduces itself over time.