Across
- 3. The official language of the 22 countries and one of the six official languages of the United Nations (UN)
- 4. The language spoken by the majority of Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- 5. The language exhibits unique features such as palatalized consonants, postalveolar consonants, and palatal sounds
- 7. Predominant Chinese variety spoken in Hong Kong and Macau
- 10. Has 6 tones (mid-level, low falling, high broken, low rising, high rising, and heavy)
- 14. Romance language spoken by some 66,000,000 persons
- 15. The alphabetical table of this language is called Varnmala or the garland of letters and includes 11 vowels and 33 consonants
- 16. Comes from the endonym, which means “river-dweller”
- 17. Its case system includes four cases: nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive
- 18. Does not use grammatical genders
Down
- 1. 5000 years old and the language of space
- 2. This Haitian "X" alphabet has no q or x. Plurals are formed by adding the word yo after a noun
- 6. It has a very distinctive alphabet called, Hangeul
- 8. Represents 7.5% of the world's languages
- 9. Known as the language of love
- 11. Li Bai was a poet that wrote in this language
- 12. Its longest word contains 54 letters
- 13. Konnichiwa "Hello" in this language