A crossword exploring lost and lesser-known languages once spoken along the historic Silk Road trade network.
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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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