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Cryptic Lexicons of Obscure Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Constructed auxiliary language aiming to bridge global communication
- 2. Dialect name referring to river inhabitants in the Ojibwe linguistic family
- 3. Southern African language famed for its click consonants
- 4. Eskimo-Aleut language known for polysynthetic word structure
- 6. Iberian Romance language with Celtic substratum influences
- 7. Sinitic dialect distinguished by tone sandhi and Hokkien roots
- 11. Revived Celtic tongue once nearly extinct on the Isle of Man
- 13. Mesoamerican language group notable for tonal complexities and variants
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- 5. Language isolate from northern Japan, spoken by indigenous hunter-gatherers
- 8. Mizo language from Northeast India with intricate verb morphology
- 9. Language isolate spoken in Pakistan's Karakoram valleys, defying classification
- 10. Complex tonal language of the Pacific Northwest Coast natives
- 12. Papuan language with limited speakers on Indonesia’s New Guinea island
- 14. Ancient Iranian language written in cuneiform yet still undeciphered fully
- 15. Subgroup of Polynesian languages including Tongan with archaic phonemes
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