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Cryptic Origins of Lost Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Descriptor for languages emphasizing throat-based sounds
  • 2. Complex group of languages native to the mountainous Eurasian region
  • 3. Indo-European language once spoken along Silk Road oasis cities
  • 4. Traditional tongue of northern Europe's Sami people
  • 6. Maritime Semitic tongue fueling Mediterranean trade
  • 7. Term connecting knowledge and language context or modality
  • 9. Prefix denoting ancient linguistic stages or fossils
  • 11. Berber language family native to North Africa
  • 12. Native American language with its own syllabary script
  • 13. Root branch of languages including Mandarin and Cantonese
  • 17. Hypothetical language family linking Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic
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  • 5. Linguistic roots tied to the earliest inhabitants of the Americas
  • 8. Final evolutionary language of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • 10. Relating to language variation within a region or social group
  • 14. Ancient Greek dialect from northwestern regions
  • 15. Early Greek language preserved in Linear B tablets
  • 16. Close linguistic cousin to English, spoken in coastal Europe
  • 18. Family of languages including Finnish and Hungarian, hinting northern roots

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