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Cryptic Glyphs of Rare Alphabets
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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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