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Cryptic Dialects of Submerged Civilizations
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Imagined extinct tongue named after legendary oceanic retribution
  • 2. Principle where symbols stand for initial sounds, key in early sea languages
  • 3. Rock inscription potentially holding clues to lost seafaring tongues
  • 4. Script system combining consonant and vowel units, underwater variant suspected
  • 6. Comprehensive vocabulary of coastal vanished vernaculars
  • 7. Adjective describing ocean-related lost idioms and tongues
  • 9. Grammar structure speculated in mythic deep-sea communication codes
  • 11. Ancient dye-producing shell genus linked to coded sea inscriptions
  • 14. Symbolic three-pronged icon in submerged language carvings
  • 16. Hypothetical directional system used by extinct oceanic traders
  • 17. Linguistic boundary marking lost dialectal divisions of coastal tribes
  • 18. Undeciphered script from the depths of Crete, sibling to Linear A
  • 20. Smallest significant sound unit lost in ancient deep-sea dialects
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  • 5. Essential textual feature absent in many undeciphered sea scripts
  • 8. Standardized writing system missing from oceanic cryptic tongues
  • 10. Symbol representing a word in certain ancient maritime inscriptions
  • 12. Runic alphabet possibly influencing submerged Nordic scripts
  • 13. Sacred cursive script once used in maritime ritual writings
  • 15. Wedge-shaped script with parallels in primitive underwater scripts
  • 19. Pictorial carvings that encode pre-linguistic oceanic messages

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