Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Ancient Scripts and Forgotten Alphabets
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Script of the Berber peoples of North Africa
- 2. Script used by ancient Champa kingdom in Vietnam
- 3. Cameroonian script invented by a king in the early 20th century
- 4. Ancient script from northwest India, derived from Aramaic
- 6. Japanese syllabary derived from simplified Chinese characters
- 8. Bronze Age Greek script predating the alphabet
- 11. Polynesian script from Easter Island, used for sacred texts
- 12. Undeciphered script from the Indus Valley civilization
- 16. Complex logographic script used by a medieval Chinese dynasty
- 18. Script used for the Oirat language in Central Asia
Down
- 5. Ancient Southeast Asian script still used in Cambodia
- 7. Old Slavic script created by Saints Cyril and Methodius
- 9. Southeast Asian script for a Tibeto-Burman language
- 10. Extinct Central Asian language with unique script forms
- 13. Philippine indigenous script, recently revived
- 14. Aramaic-derived script of an ancient desert trading people
- 15. Fictional script created by J.R.R. Tolkien for Middle-earth
- 17. Mesoamerican script of the ancient Mixtec people
- 19. Ancient cuneiform alphabet from the Levant region
- 20. Obscure script sometimes linked to Siberian peoples
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