Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Cryptic Dialects of Vanished Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Lake Chad dialect preserving medieval Kanem-Bornu empire’s lore
- 3. Obscure Bantu dialect with tonal complexity from Central Africa
- 5. Siouan dialect embodying sacred oral traditions of the Great Plains
- 7. Isolate dialect once spoken in the Southeast, defying family classification
- 8. Nigerian Plateau dialect with intricate nominal class markers
- 10. Melanesian dialect lost to time across remote oceanic atolls
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- 2. Eastern Iranian dialect entwined with nomadic Persian heritage
- 4. Lingua franca dialect borrowing from Persian, Ottoman, and Balkan origins
- 6. Athabaskan dialect famed for WWII code talking with cryptic precision
- 9. Hidden dialect connoting left-handed in French, hinting linguistic twisting
- 11. Kenyan dialect known for its unique phonemes in Cushitic branches
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