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Cryptic Tongues of Forgotten Worlds
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- 1. Isolate language on Russia's eastern coast, rich in consonants
- 2. Ancient language of southwestern Iran, predating Persian empires
- 3. Nomadic language isolate from the Malay Peninsula's indigenous groups
- 5. Pre-Roman language of ancient Portugal
- 6. Mountain dialect continuum from the western Himalayas
- 8. Script and language lost with the Western Xia dynasty
- 14. Branch of Afroasiatic tongues spoken in the Horn
- 15. Revived Gaelic from an island kingdom in the Irish Sea
- 17. Ancient Assamese dialect referenced in early Indian epics
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- 4. Near-extinct language formerly spoken in Papua New Guinea
- 7. Isolate tongue spoken in Pakistan's Hunza Valley
- 9. Centuries-dead Indo-European tongue of Central Asia's Tarim Basin
- 10. Northwest Caucasian language with complex consonant clusters
- 11. Language of the Angkor empire, layered with ancient scripts
- 12. Obscure dialect known from limited Levantine inscriptions
- 13. Term describing borrowed linguistic elements in a rare dialect
- 16. Diverse clicks-rich language family of southern Africa
- 18. Extinct East Germanic language of a barbarian tribe
- 19. Cryptic reference to a scholar who deciphered an obscure dialect
- 20. Rare dialect classified under the Vietic linguistic group
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