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Arcane Scripts of Lost Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 2. French term meaning cipher or secret code, hinting at encoded text
  • 3. Metaphorical site symbolizing origin of diverse ancient languages
  • 8. Alphabetic ancestor to Greek and Latin, mistakenly transcribed here
  • 10. Written character representing a word or morpheme, fundamental in scripts
  • 12. Language of an Indonesian island, little known in linguistic coding
  • 13. Deciphered Bronze Age syllabary of the Mycenaean Greeks
  • 15. Late Egyptian script, a cursive evolution for everyday records
  • 17. Prefix referencing the ancient Gaelic tongue and its cryptic runes
Down
  • 1. Swedish taxonomist whose classification system parallels linguistic taxonomy
  • 4. Specialist in ancient handwriting and script decipherment
  • 5. Angular alphabet carved into wood or stone by early Germanic peoples
  • 6. Ancient Turkic script named after a Siberian river
  • 7. Non-alphabetic symbol re-interpreted as a cryptic linguistic marker
  • 9. Pictorial symbols forming the basis of many archaic writing systems
  • 11. Wedge-shaped script that encoded ancient Mesopotamian commerce
  • 14. Pertaining to ruling families that commissioned elaborate language codes
  • 16. Old Indo-Aryan script encoding ancient hymns and philosophical systems
  • 18. Hypothetical mystical alphabet said to channel universal forces
  • 19. Ancient Greek institution where scripts and languages were methodically studied

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