(World Geo) Unit 3: Language & Religion

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Across
  1. 2. extinct Canaanite-Semitic language originally spoken in modern Lebanon (1100 BC)
  2. 4. adapting to a different culture, typically a dominant one
  3. 6. set of letters / symbols in a fixed order, represents the basic set of speech sounds
  4. 7. pieces of ox bone / turtle shells, used for divination–ancient China
  5. 10. shape, design, or representation of a character
  6. 13. language family native to the majority of Europe, Iranian plateau, N. India
  7. 14. printing press machine that inks text / images from movable type to paper, etc...
  8. 17. the social hierarchy in Hinduism
  9. 20. only surviving descendant of the Paleo-European languages / NE Spain-SW France
  10. 21. grammatically simplified communication method
  11. 23. (language) directly descended from original Latin (French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese)
  12. 24. brick or stone area in front of a fireplace
  13. 25. different, not of the same type
  14. 26. spread of a people from their original home (sometimes clustering in a new place)
  15. 27. distinctive way of pronouncing a language, associated w/particular country, area, class
  16. 28. (religions) the 3 main faiths descending from Abraham
  17. 30. policy of protecting interests of native-born inhabitants against those of immigrants
  18. 33. one of oldest organized faiths in world, Persia (2000BC) founded by Zarathustra)
  19. 35. common language between speakers whose native languages are different
  20. 36. person who studies languages
  21. 37. Bantu language, central eastern Africa
  22. 38. character used in a system of pictorial writing, particularly ancient Egyptian
Down
  1. 1. particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group
  2. 3. sameness, of similar kind
  3. 5. sacred written language of Hinduism (1,500BC)
  4. 8. social & cultural characteristics, backgrounds, or experiences shared by a group of people
  5. 9. differences between different languages & the ways that people communicate
  6. 11. main religion in India
  7. 12. writing system used to write several languages of Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia (3,100 BC)
  8. 14. religious journey to a holy place
  9. 15. strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject or discipline
  10. 16. 2+ gods (most ancient religions)
  11. 18. cultural no-no's
  12. 19. 1 god only (Abrahamic faiths)
  13. 22. cultural modification by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture
  14. 29. belief that objects, places, & creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence
  15. 31. geographic boundary of a certain linguistic feature
  16. 32. language that forms as the blend of two or more languages
  17. 34. Spanish + English