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Cryptic Relics of Ancient Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Ancient script pressed in clay, used across Mesopotamia
  • 2. Bridge tongue for communication, now often outmoded or extinct
  • 4. Mythical name linked to creation; also a reference in language revival
  • 8. To interpret or solve the code of lost languages
  • 10. Varied grammatical arrangements fundamental to lost tongue analysis
  • 12. Ambiguous or obscure, like many untranslated archaic inscriptions
  • 14. Relating to carving inscriptions on gems, used in ancient texts
Down
  • 3. Describes a feature found everywhere, like remnants of a lost language's syntax
  • 5. The art and science of ancient handwriting identification
  • 6. Study of the structure of words, crucial in analyzing extinct vernaculars
  • 7. Consonant-only script family including ancient Semitic languages
  • 9. Relating to inscriptions carved on enduring surfaces
  • 11. Cryptic or puzzling, much like undeciphered prehistoric scripts
  • 13. Smallest meaningful unit in writing systems, essential for decipherment
  • 15. Pertaining to the canonical Hebrew writings, foundational in Semitic linguistics

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