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Ciphered Scripts of Maritime Merchants
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  • 1. Spanish plateau, name once whispered in medieval trade dialects
  • 2. Phoenician port city linked to one of the oldest alphabets
  • 3. Cryptic variant related to sapphire trade inscriptions
  • 5. Lost Easter Island glyphs, possibly merchant records unknown
  • 6. Symbolic unit used in merchant cuneiform accounting
  • 8. Ancient Nubian script still undeciphered, a trader’s enigma
  • 10. Oasis city with its own unique Aramaic script dialect
  • 11. Lingua franca’s ghost in ancient trader correspondence
  • 16. Mesoamerican culture with elusive inscriptions, possibly commerce coded
  • 18. Carthaginian script keeper of Phoenician mercantile legacy
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  • 4. A brahmi contemporary used along Silk Road trade routes
  • 7. Asia Minor’s first alphabet, coined for trade and currency
  • 9. Invented word blending ‘epos’ poems with ‘meros’ parts—fragmented trader lore
  • 12. Medieval ship type, named but itself traces old trade tongues
  • 13. Hypothetical: A ‘line’ of scripts, ‘per’vasive in trade
  • 14. Hurrian-speaking empire, trading with Mesopotamia’s scribes
  • 15. Latin for languages, often lost in mercantile scripts
  • 17. Language family bridging ancient Indian Ocean merchant networks
  • 19. Greek term denoting Indian trade's linguistic frontiers
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