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Cryptic Tongues of Ancient Trade Routes
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  • 1. Simplified trading speech born from linguistic contact
  • 3. Secretive jargon used in clandestine merchant exchanges
  • 5. Bolivian interethnic trade tongue among altiplano natives
  • 7. Vocabulary treasure trove of trade-specific dialects
  • 8. Indonesian maritime traders’ language with extensive reach
  • 10. Spanish root word hinting at merchant’s spoken tongue
  • 12. Stable language from pidgin evolution among merchants
  • 14. Sino-Tibetan commercial lingua with niche historic use
  • 17. Pidgin named after West African trading post city
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  • 2. Generic term yet specialized lingua for Malay trade
  • 4. Hybrid trade speech smoothing mercantile discourse
  • 6. Mock term—refer to traveler's mix of tongues for barter
  • 9. Obscure coastal trade creole blending African and Malay
  • 11. Semitic lingua used by merchants across Near East
  • 13. Specialized trader dialect often unintelligible to outsiders
  • 15. Indonesian trade dish turned metaphor for language mixing
  • 16. Common dialect emerging from Hellenistic lingua mélange
  • 18. Bantu trade tongue shaped by Arab coastal settlers
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