Rubenstein Chapter 5 Part 1 vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A form of Latin used in daily conservation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.
  2. 4. A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
  3. 8. A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.
  4. 9. The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct business and publication of documents.
  5. 10. A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
Down
  1. 1. A language that is written as well as spoken.
  2. 3. A collection of languages within a branch that shares a common origin in the relatively recent past and displays relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
  3. 5. Combinations of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic Americans.
  4. 6. A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
  5. 7. A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages.