Across
- 3. set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics
- 5. a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce
- 7. a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago
- 8. the written form of a language
- 9. a form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents
- 10. a combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans
Down
- 1. a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
- 2. a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
- 4. the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
- 6. a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages