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Cryptic Chronicles of Tropical Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Branch of extinct scripts influencing tropical manuscript traditions
  • 2. Dialect that echoed through north tropical Great Lakes, now silent
  • 3. Ancient Nahuatl dialect linked to a mythic Toltec civilization
  • 4. Fictitious tropical language constructed from lost phonetic elements
  • 5. Obscure extinct tropical language family with enigmatic roots
  • 9. Mayan branch spoken in subtropical Honduras, largely displaced
  • 10. Extinct Amazonian dialect veiled by anthropological obscurity
  • 13. Lost Melanesian language group of New Caledonia, named after native peoples
  • 15. Endangered tongue once spoken along Peru-Colombia Amazon tributaries
  • 16. Term collectively applied to small hunter-gatherer languages lost in the rainforest
Down
  • 6. Long-silent tongue once weaving through Colombian tropical river networks
  • 7. Rainforest language clan erased progressively by globalizing forces
  • 8. Pre-Columbian Muisca language of Colombia, vanished before colonial dominance
  • 11. Brazilian tropical tongue nearly erased by Portuguese colonization
  • 12. Amazonian language tribe nearly lost to modern linguistic shifts
  • 14. Extinct Brazilian language that once flourished near Amazonian coasts
  • 17. Isolated Amazonian language submerged by bilingual Yagua dominance
  • 18. Nicaraguan language faded under tropical linguistic assimilation

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