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Cryptic Threads of Endangered Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Exotic Afroasiatic language cluster from southwestern Ethiopia
  • 2. Ethiosemitic dialect spoken in the Omo Valley
  • 3. Broad label for archaic Slavic dialects surviving in remote areas
  • 4. Patagonian aquatic hunter’s nearly vanished tongue
  • 9. Language from Tierra del Fuego nearly wiped out by colonialism
  • 10. Hypothetical name for a cryptic extinct dialect in New Guinea
  • 11. Rare Chinese dialect named after a riverine town
  • 14. Ancient tongue of northern Japan’s indigenous hunters
  • 18. Tibeto-Burman dialect spoken by hill tribes in Southeast Asia
Down
  • 5. Secret language used by Spanish traders and itinerants
  • 6. Surname hinting at a Franco-Provençal dialect scholar (wordplay)
  • 7. Pre-Indo-European dialect of ancient southwestern Iran
  • 8. Pacific Northwest indigenous language with complex noun classifiers
  • 12. Philippine island dialect sheltering indigenous vocabularies
  • 13. East Siberian language not linked to any major family
  • 15. Revived Gaelic tongue from the Isle of Man
  • 16. An Indo-Aryan language clinging along India's west coast
  • 17. Chin dialect recognized under the Tibeto-Burman umbrella

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