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Cryptic Tongues of Forgotten Oceanic Isles
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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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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