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Cryptic Tongues of Arctic Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Speculative language tied to vanished Northern settlements
  • 2. Dialect once prevalent along Russian Arctic river basin
  • 3. Isolate language from Siberian Arctic fringes, nearly lost
  • 5. Scandinavian dialect formerly dominant in Shetland Islands
  • 7. Extinct language family of Russia's far northeastern peninsula
  • 10. Ancient peoples near the Arctic, linguistic traces lost
  • 11. Hypothetical proto-language reconstructing Arctic oral traditions
  • 16. Proposed ancient dialect from Siberian taiga's edges
  • 17. Named for explorer; obscure vanished Arctic vocabularies
Down
  • 4. Earliest Greenlandic dialect known from archaeological finds
  • 6. Term for prehistoric Arctic hunter-gatherer dialects
  • 8. Obsolete Inuit language variant, closer to spoken Classic Inuktitut
  • 9. Ancient tongues hypothesized among Siberian Arctic tribes
  • 12. Athabaskan dialect once thriving in Yukon wilderness
  • 13. Southern Alaskan dialect, nearly extinct, Inuit-related
  • 14. Hypothetical linguistic root of extinct Northern Athabaskans
  • 15. Family including extinct Arctic Eskimo languages
  • 18. Old Norse dialect influencing Arctic coastal lexicons
  • 19. Study of Arctic island languages' intricate extinction

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