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Cryptic Linguistic Relics of Forgotten Tongues
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Across
- 2. Isolate spoken in the Karakoram’s shadow
- 3. Saharan creole with a Berber substrate, rare to find
- 4. Slavic remnant nestled within Germany’s borders
- 5. Local idiom used by common folk, opposed to formal
- 7. Tai-Kadai language flourishing in China’s Guangxi
- 9. Ancient script once thriving on the Zagros frontiers
- 10. Revived Goidelic language from an isle in the Irish Sea
- 14. Semitic tongue bearing the mark of ancient prophets
Down
- 1. Whistled dialect echoing through Canary Islands’ ravines
- 6. Australian Aboriginal dialect tied to desert storytelling
- 8. Not an instrument, but a linguistic term deceptively similar
- 11. Bantu lingua franca flowing through Congo’s rivers
- 12. North Caucasus language with intricate verb morphology
- 13. Indo-Aryan tongue rhyming with ancient folk ballads
- 15. Nilo-Saharan tongue whispering along the Nile’s edge
- 16. Language recorded only in ancient Baltic hymns and chants
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