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Arcane Dialectology and Phonetic Anomalies
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Inventive neologism for an expert voyaging through vocalic shifts
  • 2. Grammar type divorcing affixes, favoring discrete monomorphemic words
  • 3. Aspect signaling habitual or repeated action, key in Turkic tongues
  • 6. Pertaining to geographical language distribution and regional variation
  • 9. Celtic language feature where initial consonants magically transform
  • 11. Neurolinguistic repetition disorder echoing verbal stimuli
Down
  • 4. Botanical jargon oddly borrowed to describe rare phoneme clusters?
  • 5. Semi-vowel making a smooth transition between vowels, e.g., 'w' or 'j'
  • 7. Word formation involving simultaneous prefix and suffix addition
  • 8. Grammatical system flipping typical subject-object roles uniquely found in Basque
  • 10. Verb transmuted into a noun form, a linguistic alchemical trick
  • 12. Lexical item existing on the periphery of a dialect's vocabulary
  • 13. Hissing consonant characterized by intense hushing or hissing sounds
  • 14. Linguistic hitchhiker: unstressed element attaching like a parasite

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