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Cryptic Relics of Europe's Lost Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Low Germanic dialect waning along the southern Baltic littoral
  • 2. Romance tongue vanished from Adriatic coast's historic shores
  • 4. First documented East Germanic dialect, preserved by bishop’s codex
  • 5. North Sea dialect group, its archaic form now all but vanished
  • 8. Ancient Greek dialect lending its name to a classical architectural order
  • 10. Old Alemannic variant cloaked in medieval Germanic lore
  • 14. Outmoded name for a Baltic dialect once thriving near Daugava
  • 15. Distinct Iberian dialect blending Celtic and Romance heritages
  • 17. Name linked to dialect study in pre-modern European linguistics
  • 19. Group of Alpine Romance dialects, vestiges of Roman linguistic spread
Down
  • 3. Hypothetical dialect named for a Slavic ethnic micro-group
  • 6. Celtic tongue guarded by Brittany, yet fading into folklore
  • 7. Regional dialect straddling Belgium and the Netherlands’ borderlands
  • 9. Extinct Baltic dialect named after a little-known Baltic tribe
  • 11. Romance dialect preserved high in Spain’s rugged Cantabrian mountains
  • 12. Ancient Aeolic variant, whispering through early Hellenic verse
  • 13. East Germanic idiom bearing the name of a destructive tribe
  • 16. Dialect of Sorbs inhabiting a Slavic linguistic island west of the Oder
  • 18. Slavic dialect once spoken in Lusatia's obscure bounds
  • 20. Old French dialect hiding in northern France’s cultural folds

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