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Echoes of Endangered Tongues
A crossword exploring forgotten and endangered languages, their history, preservation, and cultural significance.
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- 1. A regional or social variety of a language
- 2. Relating to languages of very old civilizations
- 3. Fluency in two languages
- 4. Process of standardizing a language in writing
- 6. The scientific study of language structure and development
- 7. Efforts to bring a dying language back to use
- 9. A language with very few elderly speakers remaining
- 12. Study of speech sounds and their production
- 13. Study of cultures and their languages
- 15. A language no longer spoken by any living people
Down
- 5. Passing language and culture through spoken word
- 8. The vocabulary of a language
- 10. Old-fashioned language no longer in everyday use
- 11. Customs, arts, and social institutions tied to language
- 14. Languages at risk of falling out of use
- 16. Written characters or system used by a language
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