Across
- 2. any non-verbal expression, nuance, or action that conveys one’s perspectives, emotions, beliefs, lifestyle, and/or personhood (2 words)
- 3. a word that specifies the general time and nature of an action by coming before a verb in order to modify the latter’s meaning (3 words)
- 4. a language that stems from a European base but includes West African sources (2 words)
- 12. a language that serves as a common means of communication between people whose native languages differ (eg. English, Spanis and French) (2 words)
- 13. a regional or social variety of a language, typically noticeable through features of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar (eg. British, Nigerian English)
- 16. the language an individual first learns to speak at home during childhood (2 words)
- 18. when one switches between different varieties of language with a single conversation (2 words)
- 19. the gradual loss of an unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word (eg. gonna for going to) (2 words)
- 20. an individual’s distinctive way of speaking or writing that arises from factors such as pronunciation, word choice, and sentence structure
- 22. the language variety of a community or country that is in routine widespread use in social interaction
Down
- 1. the most prestigious dialect of a language that is generally used for education and other official purposes (2 words)
- 5. common and widespread languages that are influenced by Creole characteristics (3 words)
- 6. a standardized variety of English that is used in the Caribbean for educational, business, and other official purposes (3 words)
- 7. a language used in official situations for legal, educational, government, and other formal communication purposes (2 words)
- 8. additional of one or more sounds in a word to ease pronunciation (eg. ath-e-lete for athlete)
- 9. an English-based language formed from historical trauma that blends English with the oppressed majority’s language (3 words)
- 10. any digital representation (symbols etc) invented to distinctly identify an individual or entity (2 words)
- 11. a structured way of communicating feelings or ideas through words and signs, including dialects (eg. French, Spanish)
- 14. a phrase or expression whose meaning is figurative and is not clear from the literal meaning of its individual words (2 words)
- 15. a native language which was established wherein groups of people who did not share a common language were forced to communicate with each other
- 17. the range of types of language choices from high formal and stylized to intimate, available for use
- 21. the rearrangement of sounds or lets in a word to change its pronunciation (eg. aks for ask)