Across
- 2. A system of communication through the use of speech a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
- 5. A subdivision of a dilect
- 7. traditionally practiced primarily by small homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas
- 8. A restriction on behavior imposed by religious law or social custom
- 9. The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business
- 10. A dialect spoken by some African Americans
- 11. A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound
- 13. is found in a large heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
- 15. A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary , spelling , and pronunciation.
Down
- 1. A repetitive act preformed by a particular individual
- 3. a process adjustment to the dominate culture while retaining features of a folk culture or syncretism
- 4. A language spoken in daily use with literacy tradition that is not widely distributed
- 6. The contribution of a locations distinctive physical features to the way food tastes
- 12. A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans
- 14. the frequent reputation of an act to the extent that it becomes characteristics of the group of people performing the act