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Cryptic Roots of Lost Linguistic Veins
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  • 1. Ancient Semitic script bearer, foundation of alphabetic lineage
  • 4. Hypothetical ancient root language pre-dating familiar tongues, often postulated in obscure linguistic circles
  • 8. Greek-rooted term for a language variety isolated within a speech community
  • 10. Imaginary proto-language named in speculative linguistic reconstructions (think 'primordial murmurs')
  • 11. To adapt or render into the liturgical Egyptian dialect surviving papyri’s embrace
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  • 2. A rare Kartvelian dialect hiding in the Caucasus labyrinth
  • 3. Process of transforming text with the Old East Germanic tongue’s shadow
  • 5. Obscure extinct dialect of the Sino-Tibetan family, barely whispered in scholars’ halls
  • 6. Extinct Indo-European dialect traced along the Silk Road caravan’s glow
  • 7. Linguistic family embracing Georgian and its mystical mountainous cousins
  • 9. Language of a Bronze Age people nestled near Mesopotamian scribes
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