Across
- 3. A boundary that separates regions in which different language usage predominates
- 4. The form of a language used for official government business, and education, and mass communications
- 6. A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
- 8. A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound
- 9. A language used in education, work, mass media, and government
- 12. A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed
- 14. 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
- 15. A language that is spoken in daily use but lacks literary tradition
- 17. A language that is written as well as spoken
- 18. A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
- 19. A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
- 21. A combination of Spanish and English
- 22. The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
Down
- 1. The dialect of Englsih assosiated with upper-cass Britons living in london and now considered standard in the United Kingdom
- 2. A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore is not attached to any language family
- 5. A language that results from mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people beign dominated.
- 7. 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 collection of languages related through a commo ancestor that can be confirmed through archeological evidence
- 11. A combination of German and English
- 13. A subdivision of dialect
- 16. A combination of French and English
- 20. A collection of languages related to each other from a common ancestor long before recorded history