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Ciphered Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Script ancestral to hieroglyphs, inscribed on stone tablets
  • 2. Egyptian script evolved from hieratic, used by commoners
  • 5. Mysterious Easter Island glyphs defying modern decoding
  • 9. Ancient Celtic inscriptions carved in notches on wood
Down
  • 3. Minoan script's syllabary, undeciphered yet foundational
  • 4. Extinct East Germanic tongue, source of limited manuscripts
  • 6. Lost Germanic language of a tribe that sacked Rome
  • 7. Language isolate of the Karakoram, resisting classification
  • 8. Wedge-shaped marks that birthed Mesopotamian literacy

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