Unit 4 Culture and Language

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Across
  1. 6. A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
  2. 8. Languages consist of Yoruba, Shona, Rwanda-Rundi, and Kongo.
  3. 10. Language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
  4. 11. The language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
  5. 13. The contribution of a locations distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.
  6. 15. An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background.
  7. 16. A restriction on behvior imposed by social customs.
  8. 20. Culture found in a larger, heterogeneous society that shares habits despite differences in other chracteristics.
  9. 21. Frequent repitition of an act, to the extent that it become characteristic of the group performing the act.
  10. 22. Languages consist of Mandarin, Xiang, Burmese, Gan, and Hakka.
  11. 24. A subdivision of a dialect.
  12. 26. The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape.
  13. 28. Language used in education, work , mass media, and government.
  14. 30. Languages consist of Polish, Russian, Ukranian, Slovak, and Czech.
  15. 31. Adjustment to the dominant culture.
  16. 32. A language that is spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition.
Down
  1. 1. Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
  2. 2. A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammer and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
  3. 3. Dialect spoken by some African Americans.
  4. 4. Giving up cultural traditions and adopting the social customs of the dominant culture of a place.
  5. 5. A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound.
  6. 7. A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therfore not attatched to any language family.
  7. 9. Languages consist of Englich, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.
  8. 12. A language that is written as well as spoken.
  9. 14. The feeling that one’s own ethnic group is superior.
  10. 17. Regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
  11. 18. Languages consist of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Sicilian, and Romanian.
  12. 19. A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
  13. 23. The form of a language used for official government business, government, and mass communication.
  14. 25. Languages consist of Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Marathi, Easter Panjabi, and Marwari.
  15. 27. Language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
  16. 29. Boundary that seperates regions in which different language usages predominate.