Explore a crossword featuring key terms and languages from the rich world of lost and extinct languages.
Ancient Tongues and Forgotten Scripts
Explore a crossword featuring terms related to lost languages and the fascinating scripts and concepts used to study them.
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Across
- 1. Ancient writing material made from calfskin
- 2. Process of interpreting unknown scripts
- 4. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
- 5. The lost Semitic language once spoken in the Levant
- 6. Vocabulary of a language or author
- 10. Ancient alphabet influencing many modern scripts
- 12. Stone key to decoding Egyptian hieroglyphs
- 14. Study of ancient inscriptions
Down
- 3. Hypothetical common ancestor of related languages
- 7. Botanist who inspired linguistic classification principles
- 8. Minoan script undeciphered for centuries
- 9. Scripts no longer used or understood
- 11. Study of peoples and cultures
- 13. One of the earliest writing systems from Mesopotamia
- 15. Old Norse term describing a warrior frenzy
- 16. Symbol carved or inscribed in ancient writing
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