Across
- 3. Similar to driving a vehicle, but instead one shift gears between languages mid-sentence. (2 words)
- 6. Formal island lingo used in the classroom, business, etc (3 words)
- 9. A local twist on global tongues. Thai is a regional or social variety of a language, typically noticeable through features of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar (eg. British, Nigerian English)
- 18. The language variety of a community or country that is in routine widespread use in social interaction. “The language everyone in town knows”
- 19. Any non-verbal expression, nuance, or action that conveys one’s perspectives, emotions, beliefs, lifestyle, and/or personhood (2 words)
- 21. One’s personal spin on speech. This is an individual’s distinctive way of speaking or writing that arises from factors such as pronunciation, word choice, and sentence structure
- 22. A language that grew from English and pain. An English-based language formed from historical trauma that blends English with the oppressed majority’s language (3 words)
Down
- 1. The language an individual first learns to speak at home during childhood (2 words)
- 2. It’s like your virtual fingerprint. (2 words)
- 4. The most prestigious dialect of a language that is generally used for education and other official purposes (2 words)
- 5. 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)
- 7. “Anny said one thing but meant another.” This is a phrase or expression whose meaning is figurative and is not clear from the literal meaning of its individual words. (2 words)
- 8. Let’s sneak an extra sound to help with pronunciation! (eg. ath-e-lete for athlete)
- 10. Talk your talk with a drop of Creole. (3 words)
- 11. The range of types of language choices from high formal and stylized to intimate, available for use. Switching one’s language tone for the occasion.
- 12. The bridge between nations’ words. A language that serves as a common means of communication between people whose native languages differ (eg. English, Spanis and French) (2 words)
- 13. Bye bye to that unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word. (eg. gonna for going to) (2 words)
- 14. A language used in official situations for legal, educational, government, and other formal communication purposes (2 words)
- 15. Many different tongues, forced to create a new language.
- 16. A language born from European colonizers and the enslaved. (2 words)
- 17. a structured way of communicating feelings or ideas through words and signs, including dialects (eg. French, Spanish)
- 20. The rearrangement of sounds or letterss in a word to change its pronunciation. It seems that the letters are dancing out of order. (eg. aks for ask)