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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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