Across
- 2. Idiot comes from the Greek word idiotes meaning 'a private individual' now it means a foolish person.
- 5. a dialect of a particular region, especially one with low status in relation to the standard language of the country.
- 6. language, Latin, Sanskrit, Coptic, Biblical Hebrew are considered as
- 8. language changes in meaning and even in parts of speech
- 9. have sounds and word
- 11. Institution, When language is a means of nourishing and developing culture and establishing human relation.
- 12. system of sounds, words, patterns used by humans to communicate their thoughts and feelings.
- 13. a word used in English that was borrowed from French
- 15. A language containing lexical and other features from two or more languages, characteristically with simplified grammar and a smaller vocabulary
- 16. a less prestigious dialect or variety of a particular language.
Down
- 1. words and phrases that are regarded as very informal are more common in speech than writing,
- 3. when languages change and die, grow and expand just like the other human institutions
- 4. Phenomenon, Human beings express their thoughts feelings and knowledge through language.
- 7. It is only spoken/written/used by
- 9. when symbols are arranged, language is
- 10. the meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure.
- 14. suicide when speakers of the less prestigious language of two closely related languages, over generations, borrow so much lexis, pronunciation and syntax from the more prestigious language