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Cryptic Islands: Enigmas of Vanished Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 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
Down
  • 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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