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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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