Most Common Languages Spoken in NA

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