MONSTER FIND-A-WORD

MANY TONGUES, ONE GLOBE

The listed linguistic groups can be found in the grid in straight lines up, down, forwards, backwards or diagonally. Once you have found all of them, the remaining letters will reveal the part purpose of The International Year of Indigenous Languages, the UN mechanism designed to raise awareness of the alarming rate of language loss. 1. Afro-Asiatic 2. Albanian 3. Altaic 4. Anatolian 5. Arawakan 6. Armenian 7. Athapascan 8. Australian 9. Austro-Asiatic 10. Austronesian 11. Baltic 12. Bantu 13. Benue-Congo 14. Brythonic 15. Caddoan 16. Canaanitic 17. Carib 18. Caucasian 19. Chadic 20. Chari-Nile 21. Cushitic 22. Cymric 23. Dravidian 24. East Germanic 25. East Iranian 26. Finnic

27. Gur 28. Hamitic 29. Hellenic 30. Hindustani 31. Indic 32. Indo-European 33. Indo-Iranian 34. Indo-Pacific 35. Iroquoian 36. Italic 37. Khoisan 38. Kordofanian 39. Kwa

40. Mande 41. Mayan 42. Micronesian 43. Mongolic 44. Mon-Khmer 45. Na-Dene 46. Nguni 47. Niger-Congo 48. Nilotic

49. Norse

50. North Germanic 51. Oceanic 52. Penutian 53. Polynesian 54. Romance 55. Sanskritic 56. Sinitic 57. Sino-Tibetan 58. Siouan 59. Slavonic 60. Sudanic 61. Tibeto-Burman 62. Trans-New Guinea Phylum 63. Tungusic 64. Tupi-Guarani 65. Turkic

66. Ugric 67. Uto-Aztecan 68. Voltaic 69. Wakashan 70. West Atlantic 71. West Germanic 72. West Iranian 73. Yuman