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Peer reviewedGuerin, Clark L. – Science Activities, 1981
Discusses how linguists determine relationships of languages and group them into a family. Presents a crossword puzzle as a student activity, suitable for science and other classes, to determine the Indo-European roots of English words by a comparative method. (SK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Language Classification, Language Patterns
