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Arcane Scripts and Silent Tongues
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- 1. Non-Semitic language of ancient Near East, captured on cuneiform tablets.
- 2. Egyptian script streamlined beyond hieratic, often overlooked.
- 3. Phonation type crucial to interpreting some Caucasian dead tongues.
- 5. Ancient Aegean script family; one sibling’s syllabic script dismissed for decades.
- 8. Wedge-shaped script impressed into clay tablets, cradle of writing.
- 13. Semitic language decoded from Syrian palace archives.
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- 4. Ancestor script to many alphabets, from a maritime trading power.
- 6. Carthaginian variant of Phoenician, fading after Roman conquest.
- 7. Indo-European language once flourishing along Silk Road corridors.
- 9. Official tongue in southwest Iran, predating Persian influence.
- 10. Ancient language linked to enigmatic inscriptions in Iran.
- 11. Cryptic wordplay: a palindromic square once found in fallen Roman script.
- 12. Early Greek dialect preserved in Linear B tablets.
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