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Cryptic Scripts of Ancient Tongues
Explore the mysterious vanished languages and their unique writing systems through this challenging crossword puzzle.
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  • 1. NOT related - ignore to maintain theme
  • 2. Name of a mysterious illustrated manuscript language
  • 3. Individual symbol in an ancient script
  • 4. One of the earliest writing systems from Mesopotamia
  • 5. Prefix describing some ancient scripts like A and B
  • 8. Script where each symbol represents a syllable
  • 12. Vocabulary of a language
  • 15. Medieval Irish learned class of poets and judges
  • 16. Later Egyptian script used for everyday writing
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  • 6. Study of ancient handwriting and scripts
  • 7. What makes some ancient texts undecipherable
  • 9. Ancient language of India, foundational for many Indo-Aryan languages
  • 10. Study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing
  • 11. Mycenaean Greek script, still undeciphered fully
  • 13. Alphabet used by ancient Germanic peoples
  • 14. Naming letters by words that begin with those sounds
  • 17. Extinct East Germanic language once used by a biblical translator
  • 18. Simplified cursive script derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • 19. Describes languages from long ago

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