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Arcane Roots of Proto-Linguistics
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Language family bridging obscure Eurasian tongues, from an ancient river’s name
- 3. Vanished Balkan dialect group, shrouded in classical antiquity’s mists
- 4. Root linked to ancient global sea levels, metaphorically rising in linguistics
- 5. Ancient symbol writing, predating phonetic alphabets, whose root is 'painted'
Down
- 2. Pertaining to carving symbols, hinting at lost pictographic proto-scripts
- 6. Hypothetical African macro-family weaving obscure river basin languages
- 7. Not merely broad, but the science of forgotten language origins
- 8. Extinct Indo-European branch, once hidden on Silk Road manuscripts
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