Unit 4 Culture and Language
Across
- 6. A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
- 8. Languages consist of Yoruba, Shona, Rwanda-Rundi, and Kongo.
- 10. Language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
- 11. The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
- 13. The contribution of a locations distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.
- 15. An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background.
- 16. A restriction on behvior imposed by social customs.
- 20. Culture found in a larger, heterogeneous society that shares habits despite differences in other chracteristics.
- 21. Frequent repitition of an act, to the extent that it become characteristic of the group performing the act.
- 22. Languages consist of Mandarin, Xiang, Burmese, Gan, and Hakka.
- 24. A subdivision of a dialect.
- 26. The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape.
- 28. Language used in education, work , mass media, and government.
- 30. Languages consist of Polish, Russian, Ukranian, Slovak, and Czech.
- 31. Adjustment to the dominant culture.
- 32. A language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition.
Down
- 1. Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
- 2. A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammer and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
- 3. Dialect spoken by some African Americans.
- 4. Giving up cultural traditions and adopting the social customs of the dominant culture of a place.
- 5. A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound.
- 7. A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therfore not attatched to any language family.
- 9. Languages consist of Englich, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.
- 12. A language that is written as well as spoken.
- 14. The feeling that one’s own ethnic group is superior.
- 17. Regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
- 18. Languages consist of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Sicilian, and Romanian.
- 19. A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
- 23. The form of a language used for official government business, government, and mass communication.
- 25. Languages consist of Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Marathi, Easter Panjabi, and Marwari.
- 27. Language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
- 29. Boundary that seperates regions in which different language usages predominate.