World Languages

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Across
  1. 4. Shakespeare’s language, now used worldwide for business
  2. 6. Bollywood’s primary spoken language
  3. 8. Script reads right-to-left; classical form in holy texts
  4. 9. Tones matter in this Chinese language with billions of speakers
  5. 10. Cervantes wrote Don Quixote in this tongue
Down
  1. 1. “Hakuna Matata” comes from this East African language
  2. 2. Paris cafés and Molière’s plays use this Romance language
  3. 3. Cyrillic alphabet; Pushkin and Tolstoy’s mother tongue
  4. 5. Known for long compound words and spoken by Einstein
  5. 7. Uses kanji, hiragana, and katakana writing systems