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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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