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Arcane Lexicons of Vanished Europe
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Across
  • 1. Historic Germanic tongue once dominating Hanseatic trade routes
  • 2. A mysterious Swedish dialect known for its archaic runic alphabet
  • 3. Italian dialect grouping preserving archaic Latin substrata
  • 6. Dialect representing the Frankish linguistic substratum in Germany
  • 7. Extinct Romance language once spoken along the Adriatic coast
  • 11. Isolated Turkic dialect preserved by Orthodox Christian minority
  • 14. Legacy of Ladin dialects with Latin roots in Alpine Europe
  • 16. Traveller’s language, a dialect blending Indo-Aryan roots with Europe
  • 17. Romance dialect of Northern France with unique phonetic shifts
  • 19. Ancient Semitic dialect influencing European liturgical vernaculars
Down
  • 4. Ancient Slavic dialect whose traces linger near the Baltic shores
  • 5. Whistled language surviving as unusual dialect on the Canary Isles
  • 8. Pre-Indo-European tongue influencing early Basque dialects
  • 9. West Slavic dialect cluster retained despite centuries of Germanization
  • 10. Turkic dialect isolated in Eastern Europe after Byzantine collapse
  • 12. Eastern European isolate language, vestige of Sogdian origins
  • 13. Belgian dialect with complex medieval linguistic stratum
  • 15. Obscure Polish dialect group with a secretive rural lexicon
  • 18. Dialect branch of Upper German with medieval literary heritage
  • 20. Celtic tongue from the Isle of Man, revived from near extinction

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