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Arcane Scripts and Vanished Tongues
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Across
- 1. An obscure extinct Caucasian language with no known relatives
- 2. Wedge-shaped script that scribed forgotten Mesopotamian lore
- 3. Symbolic carvings, often indecipherable, from lost civilizations
- 4. Early Greek dialect recorded in Linear B scribed clay
- 6. Constructed term for vanished ancient vernaculars (play on 'language' + 'agno')
- 8. Study decoding ancient inscriptions, key to lost languages
- 10. Playfully cryptic for ancient clerical scripts rooted in Rome
- 14. Pre-Iranian language, etched in mysterious clay tablets
Down
- 5. Puzzle-like script, undeciphered and enigmatic (a coined term)
- 7. Ancient Indo-European tongue of Central Asian silk routes
- 9. Alphabetic forebearer, spreading trade across Mediterranean waves
- 11. Runiform script deciphered from Siberian steppes' monuments
- 12. Hypothetical Baltic dialect shadowed by history’s mists
- 13. Egyptian priestly shorthand deciphered by few
- 15. Ancient scholar whose writings include forgotten Buddhist dialects
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