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Arcane Tongues of Oceanic Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Ancient letter-based scripts once used in Tahiti's archives
  • 2. Island dialect phonetically unusual and largely unrecorded
  • 3. Vanished Melanesian dialect marked by rare phonemic features
  • 4. Primitive islander speech form fading in the Caroline atolls
  • 7. Lost Micronesian dialect documented in colonial ethnographies
  • 9. Disappeared language reconstructed via comparative Oceanic linguistics
  • 12. Obscure language once spoken on Vanuatu’s outer islands
  • 14. Hypothetical linguistic root of some ancient island lexemes
  • 16. Obsolete dialect preserved in ceremonial chants of the Solomons
  • 17. Forgotten Oceanic language fragment found in oral traditions
Down
  • 5. Forgotten dialect with complex verb morphology on remote isles
  • 6. Undeciphered Easter Island glyphs defying linguistic unraveling
  • 8. Ancient Oceanic pidgin hypothesized from sparse ruin inscriptions
  • 10. Constructed language hypothesis from ancient Oceanic glyphs
  • 11. Derivative extinct speech from New Caledonia’s indigenous groups
  • 13. Substrate language influencing modern Oceanic creoles
  • 15. Lost Austronesian language inferred from ethnohistorical texts
  • 18. Extinct Polynesian tongue named after a ceremonial canoe
  • 19. Extinct language known only through genealogical oral lore

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