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Cryptic Codices and Silent Scripts
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Obscure Vedic count of seventy-seven
  • 2. Ancient Indian site with Prakrit inscriptions
  • 3. Hypothetical Caucasian dialect known through fragments
  • 7. Oldest alphabetic scripts before Greek influence
  • 8. Adjective form denoting ancient Indo-Aryan linguistic style
  • 9. Lost Sino-Tibetan tongue from ancient dynasty
  • 11. Uralic language nearly vanished from Siberian tundra
  • 12. Ancient Greek dialect on Linear B tablets
  • 13. Unfamiliar writings alien to native script
Down
  • 4. Pre-Columbian civilization with undeciphered iconography
  • 5. Early Mesopotamian cuneiform dialect precursor
  • 6. One who studies extinct verbal expressions
  • 10. Rare linguistic term for borrowed phrasing
  • 14. Medieval faction whose dialect slipped into shadow
  • 15. Fabled script from Aegean seas’ mysterious isle
  • 16. A succinct inscription preserving lost tongues

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