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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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