Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Dialects of Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Uralic dialect embedded near Arctic river, near extinction
- 2. Ersatz Iranian vernacular with divergent vowel harmony rules
- 3. Obscure Germanic dialect, palatalized consonants defining feature
- 5. Kurdish dialect spoken in mountainous west, obscure yet vital
- 7. Turkic dialect echoing Byzantine roots in eastern Balkans
- 8. Papuan dialect harboring complex verb serialization patterns
Down
- 4. Iberian linguistic relic marking isolated Portuguese valleys
- 6. Niger-Congo dialect tracing rare phoneme clusters in Chad
- 9. North Caucasus dialect with labyrinthine ergative constructions
- 10. Celtic revival tongue once lost in Irish Sea isle
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