Culture and Language Unit

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Across
  1. 4. A language at risk of extinction because it has few surviving speakers.
  2. 5. A language that is written as well as spoken.
  3. 6. The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group’s distinct tradition.
  4. 9. A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
  5. 11. Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
  6. 12. A picture representation.
  7. 13. The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
  8. 14. A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
  9. 18. A dialect spoken by some African Americans.
  10. 21. A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
  11. 22. Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
  12. 23. A language used by older people, but is not being transmitted to children.
  13. 24. The contribution of a location’s distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.
  14. 25. A language that is unrelated to any other language and therefore not attached to any language family.
Down
  1. 1. A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
  2. 2. A center of innovation.
  3. 3. A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence.
  4. 6. The process of reduction in cultural diversity through the diffusion of popular culture.
  5. 7. A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin, with relatively recent past and few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
  6. 8. A system of communication through the use of speech, and collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
  7. 10. A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
  8. 15. A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
  9. 16. A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.
  10. 17. The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.
  11. 19. A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.
  12. 20. A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.