Explore the mysterious world of extinct and ancient languages with this specialized crossword focusing on lost tongues and their unique terminology.
Ancient Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
Explore a crossword featuring key terms and languages from the rich world of lost and extinct languages.
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- 1. Minoan script still partially undeciphered
- 2. Term referring to words with no gender distinction
- 5. Study of ancient inscriptions
- 6. Person who studies language
- 8. Ancient Macedonian city where a unique dialect was spoken
- 10. Later Egyptian script used for everyday writing
- 13. Ancient classical language of India
- 17. Site associated with extinct Samoyedic languages
- 19. Ancient language descended from Phoenician
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- 3. To become extinct or lost, as a language
- 4. Ancient Mesopotamian writing system using wedge shapes
- 7. Bantu language sometimes considered moribund in some dialects
- 9. Language of hieroglyphs
- 11. Extinct East Germanic language of the Goths
- 12. River near where Old Welsh evolved
- 14. Regional variety of a language
- 15. Use of symbols representing the initial sounds of words
- 16. Runic alphabet of early Germanic languages
- 18. Related to carving or engraving symbols
- 20. Script used by the ancient Tuareg people
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