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Cryptic Tongues of Silk Road's Past
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Unlikely language weaving western echoes in eastern trade
  • 2. Ancient script merging Aramaic style with Indian form
  • 3. Extinct Indo-European tongue unearthed in Tarim mummies
  • 4. Isolate language clinging to high mountain valleys
  • 7. Literary language known from Buddhist manuscripts in desert oasis
  • 9. Imperial Iranian script adapted for Manichaean texts
  • 10. Tongue of nomads whose invasions shaped Central Asia
  • 11. Region whose dialect vanished with oasis civilizations
  • 18. Obscure Turkic dialect near the Urumqi margins
Down
  • 5. Cryptic combination reflecting the Tocharian linguistic heritage
  • 6. Old Iranian form dubbed ‘Aryan’ on ancient seals
  • 8. Name of a rare script or dialect linked to Bactria’s silence
  • 12. Hypothetical Iranian branch from Transoxiana’s shadow
  • 13. Silk Road kingdom’s script, mysterious and pictographic
  • 14. Merchant lingua franca carving ancient caravan routes
  • 15. Prakrit dialect inscribed on Kushan monastic relics
  • 16. Ancient dialect near Hindu Kush, lost to history
  • 17. Script of a lost kingdom competing with the Mongols

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