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Ancient Tongues Along Silk Routes
Explore elusive and vanished languages traded and spoken along the historic Silk Road through this crossword puzzle.
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  • 1. Language of an ancient empire and script on Silk Road
  • 2. Extinct Indo-European language of Xinjiang
  • 4. Language and script spread through Silk Road monasteries
  • 7. An important merchant language of Central Asia
  • 10. Classical Indian language transmitted via Silk Road
  • 11. Language group historically influencing the Silk Road
  • 12. Middle Iranian script associated with Sassanian culture
  • 15. Language of the nomadic tribes on Silk Road fringes
  • 16. Language of the Western Xia dynasty
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  • 3. Language from northern Pakistan involved in Silk Road dialogues
  • 5. Extinct Turkic-influenced language of Central Asia
  • 6. Earliest Turkic script deciphered from Orkhon inscriptions
  • 8. Variant spelling of a key Silk Road literary language
  • 9. Ancient Indo-European language of the Tarim Basin
  • 13. Region where ancient Iranian dialects flourished
  • 14. Script used for secret writings by merchants
  • 17. Semitic language once widespread on the western Silk Road
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