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Cryptic Relics of Lost Linguistics
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Across
- 1. Alpine ancient tongue preserved in enigmatic inscriptions
- 2. Minoan script defying full decipherment on ancient clay tablets
- 3. Language family including the undeciphered Hittite tablet codes
- 7. Obscure cryptographic method involving bidirectional codes
- 8. Mysterious Easter Island glyphs still resisting full analysis
- 11. Wedge-shaped script that chronicles Sumerian administrative codes
- 12. Sacred Egyptian script combining logograms and phonetics
- 15. Isolate language defying Indo-European classification codes
- 17. Ancient Eritrean script, precursor to Ge'ez, often undeciphered
- 19. Old Indo-Aryan language preserving ritual chants in coded verses
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- 4. Ancient Berber script carved in Saharan rock art
- 5. Simplified Egyptian script replacing hieratic in daily use
- 6. Semitic language unearthed in Mesopotamian archival tablets
- 9. Old dialect from the northern Levantine archives
- 10. Prehistoric African languages noted for complex click consonants
- 13. Father of movable type who revived the forgotten alphabet codes
- 14. Cryptic fictional cipher used in esoteric language puzzles
- 16. Renaissance scholar who resurrected coded classical manuscripts
- 18. Indigenous script created in the early 19th century
- 20. Term referencing ancient Greek scripts with ambiguous signs
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