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Ancient Scripts and Lost Languages is a medium crossword puzzle with 17 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
Ancient Scripts and Lost Languages
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- 1. One of the earliest writing systems, used in ancient Mesopotamia
- 2. Ancient Italic language script used in southeastern Italy
- 3. General term for extinct language scripts from Asia Minor
- 5. Script developed in the First Bulgarian Empire for Slavic languages
- 6. Late Egyptian script that followed hieratic and preceded Coptic
- 8. Script invented by a Cameroon ruler in the early 20th century
- 11. Ancient script used on the eastern Iberian Peninsula before Latin took over
- 13. Alphabetic characters used by Germanic tribes in early medieval Europe
- 14. Prehistoric European script found in Serbia, often undeciphered
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- 4. Lost Anatolian script once used in what is now southern Turkey
- 7. Old Slavic script created by Saints Cyril and Methodius
- 9. Early medieval alphabet used primarily in Ireland and western Britain
- 10. Variant of an ancient script used by a maritime civilization in the Mediterranean
- 12. Simplified cursive script derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs
- 15. Ancient script from Cambodia, ancestor of modern Southeast Asian writing
- 16. Term used for the Bronze Age scripts discovered on Aegean islands
- 17. Material associated with a broad era of early undeciphered scripts
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