Explore important people linked to lost African languages in this easy crossword. Perfect for adults and general audiences interested in linguistics history.
Cryptic Scripts of Forgotten Africa is a hard crossword puzzle with 17 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Cryptic Scripts of Forgotten Africa
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Across
- 1. Sudanese script baffling scholars despite early written legacy
- 2. Branch of Afroasiatic tongues with elusive extinct dialects
- 3. Name hidden in linguistic mists (trick: a lost African language?)
- 4. Ancient Ethiopian liturgical tongue, now less voiced
- 7. Fabled East African dialect that lingers in whispered lore
- 10. Once spoken tongue of a vanished northern Ghanaian tribe
- 11. Ancient script still cryptically etched by Berber descendants
- 13. Phantom language - name means something lost in phonetics
- 15. Esoteric ideograms of Nigeria’s secret societies
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- 5. Obscure writing system once used by North African tribes
- 6. Study of ancient Nile inscriptions beyond hieroglyphs
- 8. Cryptic clue: break apart the ribs of a language’s structure
- 9. Language vanishing in West African savannas — specialized phonemes
- 12. Clicks recorded in fading Southern African linguistic echoes
- 14. Language family cloaked in Sahara’s linguistic desert
- 16. A distantly related North African language’s ghost
- 17. Lost sub-dialect of dominant West African gold coast tongues
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