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Ancient Tongues of the Silk Road
Explore the mysterious and vanished languages that once flourished along the Silk Road trade routes.
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Across
  • 1. Historic Turkic language influencing Silk Road trade
  • 2. Tocharian language dialect from Tarim Basin city
  • 3. Region associated with unknown Silk Road languages
  • 4. Religious script and language on Silk Road documents
  • 8. Extinct branch of Indo-European spoken in Tarim Basin
  • 11. Official Middle Persian language of Persian Empire
  • 12. Predecessor form of a Central Asian language
  • 17. Riverside script linked to lost Central Asian tongues
Down
  • 5. Language of a lost kingdom in Western China
  • 6. Isolate language once spoken near Silk Road routes
  • 7. Extinct Indo-European language of ancient Xinjiang
  • 9. Lingua franca spread through Silk Road trading centers
  • 10. Christian Syriac dialect spread via Silk Road
  • 13. Trade language of merchants on the Silk Road
  • 14. Lost dialect from Central Asian nomadic tribes
  • 15. Ancient Prakrit language used in Buddhist texts
  • 16. Language associated with an ancient oasis civilization
  • 18. Ancient Iranian language used in Central Asia

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