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Vanishing Voices and Lost Tongues
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
  • 1. Traditional beliefs and stories passed orally
  • 2. List of terms with definitions in a language
  • 3. Effort to bring a language back into use
  • 4. Able to speak two languages fluently
  • 6. Set of words known or used by a person
  • 8. Describing a language at the brink of extinction
  • 10. Regional variation of a language
  • 11. A small group of words forming a unit
  • 16. Correct or accepted pronunciation
  • 18. Smallest unit of sound in speech
Down
  • 5. Original language learned from birth
  • 7. Study of ethnic groups and cultures
  • 9. Change in sounds or letters in language
  • 12. Specialist who studies languages
  • 13. Older community member preserving language
  • 14. Another word for language or dialect
  • 15. Latin root meaning language or tongue
  • 17. Written down, unlike oral languages
  • 19. Writing system used by a language
  • 20. Reliance on spoken communication over writing

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