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Cryptic Islands: Enigmas of Vanished Tongues is a hard crossword puzzle with 14 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Cryptic Islands: Enigmas of Vanished Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Lost dialect variant once flourishing on Society Islands
- 3. Remote Pacific land known for an undeciphered writing system
- 4. Amazonian isolate adapted metaphorically to island linguistic riddle
- 5. Papuan lost language whose grammar confounded linguists
- 7. Fictitious extinct island speech—anagram of 'locale' and 'oak'
- 9. Hypothetical isolated dialect conjectured on Melanesia
- 11. Broad linguistic family encompassing numerous vanished island tongues
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- 2. Intrinsic island language nearly extinct on tiny Micronesian atoll
- 6. Decipherment defied: Easter Island’s inscribed tablet script
- 8. Polynesian effigy name, hinting at origin of island myths and tongues
- 10. Indigenous group with complex language history, adapted here for cryptic puzzle
- 12. Cryptic island language coined in linguistic folklore
- 13. Colonial term obscurely linked to lost Oceanic tongues
- 14. Andamanese isolate whose dialect vanished amid colonial waves
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