Dialects/ Creoles Quiz
Across
- 3. Languages which were created to communicate between speakers of different languages for trade.
- 4. The pressure on creole speakers to adopt a standard variety.
- 5. Languages created as a result of contact between the enslaved and their masters.
- 8. These lie in the middle of the continuum and represent combinations of the standard and non standard varieties.
- 9. Making of sounds when the tongue makes contactwith the hard palate.
- 10. The entire vocabulary system of a language
- 11. In Caribbean dialects and creoles, the nouns and verbs are usually _______.
Down
- 1. The attempt to convert creole expressions to the standard English by using an inappropriate form.
- 2. Expressions in one language that have been literally translated to another.
- 3. This refers to the sound structure of creoles.
- 6. This represents the non-standard variety on the creole continuum.
- 7. The standard dialect is used within _____ contexts such as speeches.