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Cryptic Scripts of Africa's Past
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Referring to ancient Ethiopian scripts that remain partially unidentified
  • 2. Pertaining to the scholarly study of an ancient Nile language system
  • 3. Script of a Sudanese kingdom, neither fully Semitic nor alphabetic
  • 7. Pharaonic tongue whose hieroglyphic forms challenge modern decipherers
  • 8. A scarcely attested language from West Africa, lost to history
  • 10. A coastal lingua franca with archaic forms no longer spoken
  • 13. Classical Ethiopian tongue with old variants largely extinct today
  • 15. Kingdom language south of Egypt, surviving only in fragmented texts
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  • 4. Ancient script of the North African Amazigh, yet undeciphered fully
  • 5. Inscribed alphabet associated with Tuareg nomads and ancient Berbers
  • 6. A supposed lost language, echoing in ancient southern African tales
  • 9. A creolized Bantu form that contains archaic dialectal remnants lost over time
  • 11. Ancient Egyptian scribes’ substrate language theorized from unexplained signs
  • 12. Click-consonant language family fragmented beyond linguistic recovery
  • 14. Ethnolinguistic group with extinct dialects linked to Congo region
  • 16. Famous language family with lost dialects once spanning sub-Saharan Africa

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