Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Arcane Scripts of Silk and Spice
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Obscure IBM-code not a language, but here a cryptic hint of commerce encryption
- 2. Root of language where earliest trade cuneiform tablets found
- 4. Elite speech class tied to early Roman trade oligarchs (figurative)
- 6. Regional tongue entwined with historic Indus Valley commerce
- 8. Pre-Roman Balkan language linked to Adriatic seafaring trade
Down
- 3. East Iranian tongue pivotal along the Silk Road caravans
- 5. Ancient script tracing trade from Gandhara, reversed in direction
- 7. Cuneiform script from Mediterranean port city, rich with lexemes
- 9. Sudanese royal language tied to Nile commerce, still undeciphered
- 10. Semi-mythical trade dialect linking Andean merchants and shamans
- 11. Lingua franca of Near Eastern merchants and imperial decrees
- 12. Prakrit dialect in Buddhist manuscripts along trans-Himalayan lanes
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