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Cryptic Tongues of Forgotten Worlds
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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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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