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Cryptic Tongues of Forgotten Oceanic Isles
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Across
- 1. Older form of a shifting Polynesian tongue, partially reconstructed
- 2. Dialect spoken on Yap Island, now extinct and fragmentary
- 3. Undeciphered script from an Easter Island relic
- 5. Handwritten relic possibly preserving extinct island dialects
- 6. Obscure dialect of Fiji known only from scattered chants
- 8. Near-extinct New Caledonian dialect with unique phonemes
- 11. Hypothetical proto-language reconstructed from Oceanic substrata
- 12. Hypothetical lunar calendar glyphs possibly linked to island culture
- 13. Extinct Micronesian language with rhythmic vowel patterns
Down
- 4. Ethnolinguistic group whose ancient tongues vanished near New Guinea
- 7. Distinctive linguistic features lost in Polynesian throat singing
- 9. Forgotten language from the Tanimbar Islands, rich in metaphor
- 10. Language family with vanished ancient scripts across expansive islands
- 14. Language cluster with ancient forms lost amid volcanic upheavals
- 15. Reconstructed ancient Oceanic tongue featuring rare consonants
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