Printable Languages of the World Crosswords

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Languages of the World

Medium · 11×11 · 11 words
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  1. 4. A stable natural language developed from a mixture of others
  2. 5. The native Celtic speech of Scotland or Ireland
  3. 7. It has the most native speakers of any language in the world
  4. 8. A symbolic figure or character in a writing system
  5. 9. The language of the Iliad and the Odyssey
  6. 10. A simplified speech used for communication between different groups
  7. 11. A pitch change that alters word meaning in Cantonese

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  1. 1. It uses the logical and scientific Hangul writing system
  2. 2. A revived ancient tongue now spoken in the Middle East
  3. 3. Austroasiatic language that uses a Latin based script
  4. 6. Alphabet used for Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian

Languages of the World

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  1. 1. The alphabet used for writing Russian and Bulgarian
  2. 4. A unique language isolate spoken in the Pyrenees mountains
  3. 7. The most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language
  4. 9. Collective term for the Japanese syllabic scripts Hiragana and Katakana
  5. 10. The diplomatic language of the world for several centuries
  6. 11. The primary official language of India written in Devanagari script
  7. 12. A distinctive mode of pronunciation typical of a particular locality

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  1. 2. Historical language of Ashkenazi Jews combining German and Hebrew elements
  2. 3. The official language of Cambodia with a very large alphabet
  3. 5. Ancient liturgical language of Hinduism and the root of many Indian tongues
  4. 6. The complete vocabulary of a person or a specific field
  5. 8. The dead language that remains the foundation of the Romance family

Languages of the World

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  1. 1. Semetic speech from the Horn of Africa
  2. 4. A collection of sacred texts or the standard works of a language
  3. 6. A bird-brained way to trade when tongues don't match
  4. 7. The code-talking tongue that the enemy couldn't break
  5. 9. The empire's speech still heard in the Andes
  6. 10. The most spoken tongue in the land of the Taj Mahal
  7. 13. The dialect of dim sum and Hong Kong cinema
  8. 18. The diplomatic tongue once considered the lingua franca
  9. 19. The dead language that lives on in the law and the garden
  10. 20. I post a jumbled form of regional speech

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  1. 2. Words that share a common ancestor, like night and nuit
  2. 3. An Uralic tongue that sounds like it is at the very end
  3. 5. Right to left script that gave us algebra and alcohol
  4. 8. The study of meaning that some might say is just a matter of words
  5. 11. Family of the south, distinct from the Indo-European north
  6. 12. The study of where a word was born before it left home
  7. 14. Perfectly arranged ancient script that sounds like a lack of a short play
  8. 15. The Celtic soul of the Highlands and the Emerald Isle
  9. 16. Basque, for one, found standing completely alone on the family tree
  10. 17. A stable natural language born from a mixture of many

Languages of the World

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  1. 2. Very informal usage of common words
  2. 5. Isolated tongue spoken in the Pyrenees
  3. 6. Source of many scientific and philosophical terms
  4. 8. Sacred classical language of Hinduism
  5. 11. Describing languages where pitch changes word meaning
  6. 12. The dead foundation of the Romance family
  7. 13. The complete vocabulary of a person or group

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  1. 1. Constructed speech meant for international harmony
  2. 3. Distinctive pronunciation based on origin
  3. 4. Celtic language branch found in Scotland or Ireland
  4. 7. Script used for writing Russian and Bulgarian
  5. 9. The arrangement of words to create well-formed sentences
  6. 10. Adopted Chinese logographs used in Japanese writing

Languages of the World

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  1. 1. The language spoken in the Netherlands
  2. 5. Famous stone used to decode Egyptian hieroglyphs
  3. 6. Country where the Kanji writing system is used

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  1. 2. Pitch used in Chinese to distinguish word meanings
  2. 3. Language that uses the letters alpha and beta
  3. 4. The ancient language of the Roman Empire
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