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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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  • 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
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  • 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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