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Cryptic Glyphs of Rare Alphabets
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. representing a voiced postalveolar fricative, often replaced by the letter 'Ж'
  • 2. in Slavic and Baltic languages representing a voiced affricate, tricky letter duo
  • 3. Script family containing the ejective letter 'P' sound
  • 4. Ancient Semitic letter, sometimes depicted as a monkey’s tail head shape
  • 7. Diacritical mark in Portuguese and Spanish indicating nasalization or palatalization
  • 10. Nasal consonant letter used in phonetic transcription, resembling a hooked 'N'
  • 11. Letter resembling a tailed '3', used in phonetic alphabets for voiced postalveolar fricative
Down
  • 5. Old Slavic script predating Cyrillic, featuring complex, angular letters
  • 6. Mid-central vowel sound represented by an inverted 'e' in phonetics
  • 8. Irish word meaning 'cry' used cryptically to hint at unique Gaelic character
  • 9. Phoenician ancestor letter linked to the modern letter 'L', originally a shepherd's staff
  • 12. Ancient Irish alphabet with non-linear character shapes, often on stones
  • 13. Cyrillic letter denoting the voiced affricate as in ’j’ of 'jam'

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