Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Cryptic Roots of Endangered Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Bantu dialect veiled in Angola’s hinterlands, rich with polysyllabic tricks.
- 3. Ancient form hiding within Basque’s shadows, prefixing language’s secret heart.
- 5. Controversial linguistic lineage, linking Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic streams.
- 6. Root signifying ‘ancient beneath,’ used for reconstructing proto dialect lines.
- 8. Mesoamerican tongue with tonal twists, obscure to most but vital in Oaxaca.
Down
- 2. Dialect born in America’s Keystone, from Germanic origins, yet locally altered.
- 4. Hypothetical dialect spot where root and branch linguistics intersect enigmatically.
- 7. Far eastern dialect from peninsular winds, resilient in Siberian linguistics.
- 9. Ancient script’s spoken ancestors, fathered alphabets yet dialect remains arcane.
- 10. Scientific pursuit measuring tongues’ latent ancestral DNA through phonetic decay.
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