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Arcane Scripts and Lost Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Obscure dialect with roots in didactic manuscripts, often overlooked
  • 2. Barbarian language once spoken in parts of Roman Africa
  • 3. Study of golden inscriptions in languages lost to time
  • 4. Philosopher associated with texts in a forgotten Indic script
  • 6. Smallest meaningful unit in a language's forgotten morphology
  • 8. Art of carving inscriptions, crucial for deciphering lost languages
  • 10. Ancient Southwestern Iranian tongue, still indecipherably sparse
  • 11. System used to classify ancient botanical names, often in dead tongues
  • 14. Pre-Columbian language with unique tonal distinctions, nearly vanished
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  • 5. Ancient maritime script that influenced modern alphabets
  • 7. Modern region where ancient Sogdian texts were uncovered
  • 9. Wedge-shaped script etched on ancient clay tablets
  • 12. Egyptian priestly shorthand derived from sacred hieroglyphs
  • 13. East Germanic tongue saved by a bishop’s bible translation
  • 15. Cryptic, like the palindrome square revealing forgotten Latinate phrases
  • 16. Long-forgotten Semitic language from a Syrian city-state archive

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