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Arcane Etymologies of Ancient Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Archaic Greek dialect, foundational yet overshadowed by Attic counterparts
  • 2. Root language family that gave rise to tongues spoken across ancient Mesopotamia
  • 4. Obscure ancient Balkan language, known only through fragments and inscriptions
  • 5. Runic alphabet named after its first six letters, embodying ancient Nordic speech
  • 6. One of the world’s largest language families, including vanished archaic dialects
  • 10. Language unearthed in ancient Syrian tablets, predating Akkadian vocabularies
  • 14. Hypothetical lost root linked to early Celtic languages near Irish coasts
  • 15. Ancestor of a vast Eurasian language family, partially reconstructed from shared roots
  • 17. Ancient Near Eastern language, enigmatic in origins and influence
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  • 3. Extinct East Germanic tongue with a bible translation by Bishop Ulfilas
  • 7. Linguistic root lineage including Finnish and Hungarian, obscure to many
  • 8. Historical trade tongue with roots in simplified, hybridized lexicons
  • 9. Ancient script and language that influenced the Greek alphabet’s genesis
  • 11. Prehistoric southwestern Iranian language, stubbornly resisting full decipherment
  • 12. Philosophical method housing roots of argument and speech study
  • 13. Earliest attested form of Greek, preserved in Linear B script
  • 16. Extinct branch of Indo-European found in Silk Road’s oasis manuscripts
  • 18. Late stage of Egyptian language, bridging hieroglyphs to Greek alphabet

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