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Arcane Tongues of Melanesian Depths
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Across
  • 2. Obscure Melanesian dialect documented by early ethnographers
  • 3. Pidgin language derived from multiple forgotten Oceanic lexicons
  • 4. A proto-language theorized to bridge Austronesian dialects
  • 5. Endangered Oceanic language once spoken on remote islands
  • 7. Isolated language with unique evidentiality markers
  • 10. Oceanic language that preserves ancient numeral classifiers
  • 12. Language name derived from a regional myth of speech origins
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  • 1. Forgotten Papuan tongue renowned for its complex verb morphology
  • 6. Tongue emphasizing reduplication in verb formation
  • 8. Language with archaic prenasalized stops, now extinct
  • 9. Phonologically unique language with rare ejective consonants
  • 11. Extinct dialect noted in colonial missionary records
  • 13. Term for a vanished language group with diverse tonal registers

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