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Down: 1) A language, especially a pidgin, used by different speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade. 2) Able to speak only one language.3) A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.4) A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated (a pidgin language that has become the native language of an area).5) The scientific study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, and use.6) The variety of languages in an area.8) A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago.9) A language that is written as well as spoken.10) Able to fluently speak more than one language.11) 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.12) A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.14) A boundary separating regions by the predominate language(s) spoken in each. Across: 7) A division of languages below a family and above a branch/group (classifications such as Indo-Iranian, Greek and Germanic, among many others).9) 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) The world’s most extensively spoken language family, prevalent in much of Europe, North America and Australia.14) Languages that are unrelated to all others and are therefore not attached to any language family.15) A language with simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.16) The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.17) A language mutually understood by people who have different native languages.18) A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.19) Characters used in Chinese/East Asian writing to represent an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English.
 

 

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