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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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