Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Echoes of Endangered Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 2. Nguni dialect famous for its click consonants
- 3. Niger-Congo language with rare noun class system
- 5. Proto-language root for numerous Native American dialects
- 6. Minimal phoneme Papuan language with unique orthography
- 8. Turkic-Jewish ethnolect surviving in Eastern Europe
- 9. Tai-Kadai language known for tonal complexity in China
Down
- 1. Celtic language revived from extinction on Isle of Man
- 4. Oceanic language with rare prenasalized consonants
- 7. Official minority language in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
- 10. Extinct Andean dialect rediscovered through colonial texts
- 11. Akan dialect used in Ghana’s Ashanti region
- 12. Oghuz Turkic language isolated in Moldova
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