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Cryptic Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
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  • 1. Descriptive term for symbolic or pictorial writing forms
  • 2. Roman British alphabet inscribed on wax tablets
  • 3. Pertaining to letters; often found in coded ancient correspondence
  • 5. Unclassified script hypothesized on Central African artifacts
  • 6. Hypothesized writing system of the Preclassic Mesoamerican culture
  • 7. Ancient wedge-shaped script on Mesopotamian tablets
  • 9. Script linking Aramaic and Arabic in ancient trade scripts
  • 15. Simplified Egyptian script succeeding hieratic
  • 17. Language family associated with ancient lost runiform scripts
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  • 4. Alphabetic precursor to Phoenician from Bronze Age inscriptions
  • 8. Words composed to exploit phonetic ambiguity in scripts
  • 10. Undeciphered glyphic script from Easter Island
  • 11. Mycenaean syllabary predating the Greek alphabet
  • 12. Syllabary used on Crete, predecessor to Linear B
  • 13. Ancestor script to the 9th-century Uralic alphabet
  • 14. Ancient Semitic script found across Arabian sandstone
  • 16. Elusive ancient Chinese script, also called 'Mystic Seal'
  • 18. Pre-Roman script used in the eastern Iberian Peninsula
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