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Cryptic Tongues of Ancient Trade Networks
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Hellenistic lingua franca merging dialects for pan-Mediterranean trade
  • 2. Semitic sea trader's script precursor to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets
  • 4. Extinct East Germanic language linked to North African mercantile tribes
  • 5. Western Georgian dialect once facilitating Black Sea commerce
  • 9. Hypothetical trade pidgin from fragmented Old Nordic roots
  • 11. Latin for 'ship'; term reflecting ancient trade vessel lexicon
  • 12. Island tongue bearing Austronesian roots, key for Indian Ocean barter
  • 13. Classical script bearer and lingua franca in Byzantine marketplace
  • 15. Ancient Nile Valley language intertwined with caravan commerce
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  • 3. Language of Carthaginian merchants, echoing Phoenician maritime dominance
  • 6. Historic name for a Southern Vietnamese dialect used by spice traders
  • 7. Indigenous Canary Island tongue, lost yet key to Atlantic trade history
  • 8. Lost script and language of the Kingdom near the Nile's fourth cataract
  • 10. Empire's bureaucratic tongue that spread across European mercantile routes
  • 14. Script and language of desert caravan custodians along spice corridors
  • 16. Ancient Near Eastern language evident in Mesopotamian trade records
  • 17. Lingua franca of Near Eastern commerce, older than common Semitic tongues
  • 18. Descendant of ancient Egyptian language used by Mediterranean traders
  • 19. Obscure Central Asia group whose tongue influenced early trade vocabularies
  • 20. Silk Road scribal tongue spoken along Central Asian trade arteries

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