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Cryptic Echoes of Lost European Tongues
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  • 1. Italic subgroup of extinct Italic languages, divergent from Latin
  • 2. Hypothetical lost language hypothesized in ancient Alpine transcriptions
  • 3. Indo-European tongue from northeastern Italy, extinct by 1st century BCE
  • 5. Ancient language of southwestern Iran, predating cuneiform scripts
  • 6. Obscure language of Iberian Peninsula's northwestern tribes
  • 8. Thracian branch language in the Carpathian basin, vanished post-Roman conquest
  • 10. Semi-deciphered southwestern Iberian inscriptions from pre-Roman era
  • 12. Non-Indo-European tongue of ancient western Sicily
  • 15. Ancient Italic dialect spoken in northwestern coastal regions
  • 18. West Germanic tongue once distinct, now overshadowed by modern Dutch and German
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  • 4. Indo-European language linked with early Italic tribes
  • 7. Collective term for Iberian Peninsula’s archaic pre-Latin idioms
  • 9. Ulfilan scripture's language, vanished since early medieval times
  • 11. Pre-Roman Iberian dialect from western Peninsular Peninsula's past
  • 13. Ancient island language reconstructed from fragmentary inscriptions in the Adriatic
  • 14. Hypothetical extinct Slavic dialect theorized in northern Europe
  • 16. Script used by Hittites and Hurrians to preserve extinct European tongues
  • 17. Apulian dialect once spoken in southeastern Italy
  • 19. Obscure Balkan tongues spoken before Roman dominion
  • 20. Pre-Greek island dialect from central Sicily

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