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Cryptic Tongues of Insular Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Mythical island language believed to hold secrets to ancient navigation.
  • 2. Ancient liturgical script that influenced certain Indian Ocean islands.
  • 3. Term describing the fiery tongues lost to volcanic devastations.
  • 4. An island jargon lost amidst shifting European trade routes.
  • 7. Hypothetical lost language from an extinct Polynesian tribe.
  • 9. Disused language from a central Micronesian island chain.
  • 11. Obscure script discovered on oceanic relics, yet undeciphered.
  • 12. Historical Oceanic language replaced by French colonial influence.
  • 15. A vanished Micronesian dialect named after a cryptic animal.
  • 16. Extinct Maldivian script once used for royal decrees (6 letters, accented).
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  • 5. Obsolete tongue formerly spoken in a now-submerged atoll.
  • 6. Ideographic script unique to a remote South Pacific island.
  • 8. Colossal statues guarding a culture whose language disappeared.
  • 10. Extinct language from an island with unique Austronesian roots.
  • 13. Lost dialect associated with ritual chants of a Polynesian sect.
  • 14. This island’s Rongorongo script remains an undeciphered enigma.
  • 17. Language subgroup within the Austronesian family, now archaic.

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