Chapter 5 Review: Languages Crossword

Collection of languages related through a common ancestor long before recorded history; split into branches and groups.
Collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Derived from same family and are not as old or extensive as language families.
Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
A language that is written as well as spoken.
A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound
Language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
 Language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. 
Language that is unrelated to any other languages and is therefore not attached to any language family.
Language that was once used by people in daily life but is no longer used.
a dialect of English spoken by some African Americans
a boundary that separates regions in which different languages usages predominate
Form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.
Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca- used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
Regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.