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Cryptic Scripts of Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Name linked to the first decipherer of the Phoenician script
  • 2. Phenomenon of speaking in tongues, possibly linked to lost linguistic patterns
  • 6. Specialist in deciphering ancient Norse inscriptions, often arcane and lost
  • 7. Crucial act unraveling cryptic lost scripts
  • 9. Wedge-shaped earliest writing system of Mesopotamia, a key lost language script
  • 11. Study of inscriptions, crucial for deciphering ancient lost scripts
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  • 3. System used to classify languages lost to history, named after a Swedish botanist
  • 4. Ancient abjad script believed to be a precursor to Phoenician
  • 5. Civilization with undeciphered script left on seals and tablets
  • 8. Prophecy or cryptic writing; metaphor for undeciphered ancient texts
  • 10. Figurative key or garden from which long-lost languages bloom metaphorically
  • 12. Manuscript scraped and reused, harboring traces of ancient scripts beneath
  • 13. Egyptian archive revealing diplomatic correspondences with possible lost orthographies
  • 14. Ancient Levantine port associated with one of the earliest alphabetic inscriptions

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