Vocabulary Terms VII

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Across
  1. 3. A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group[ of people to have the same meaning.
  2. 4. A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
  3. 6. The languages adopted for use by the government for the conduct of businesses and publication of documents.
  4. 9. A form of latin used in daily conversation by the ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for the official documents.
  5. 10. A combination of Spanish and English that is spoken by Hispanic Americans.
Down
  1. 1. 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.
  2. 2. A language mutually understood and commonly ised in trade by people who have different native languages.
  3. 5. A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousands of years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as language families, and archeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.
  4. 7. A language that is written as well as spoken.
  5. 8. A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively past and displays relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.