Language and Society

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Across
  1. 2. Idiot comes from the Greek word idiotes meaning 'a private individual' now it means a foolish person.
  2. 5. a dialect of a particular region, especially one with low status in relation to the standard language of the country.
  3. 6. language, Latin, Sanskrit, Coptic, Biblical Hebrew are considered as
  4. 8. language changes in meaning and even in parts of speech
  5. 9. have sounds and word
  6. 11. Institution, When language is a means of nourishing and developing culture and establishing human relation.
  7. 12. system of sounds, words, patterns used by humans to communicate their thoughts and feelings.
  8. 13. a word used in English that was borrowed from French
  9. 15. A language containing lexical and other features from two or more languages, characteristically with simplified grammar and a smaller vocabulary
  10. 16. a less prestigious dialect or variety of a particular language.
Down
  1. 1. words and phrases that are regarded as very informal are more common in speech than writing,
  2. 3. when languages change and die, grow and expand just like the other human institutions
  3. 4. Phenomenon, Human beings express their thoughts feelings and knowledge through language.
  4. 7. It is only spoken/written/used by
  5. 9. when symbols are arranged, language is
  6. 10. the meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure.
  7. 14. suicide when speakers of the less prestigious language of two closely related languages, over generations, borrow so much lexis, pronunciation and syntax from the more prestigious language