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Cryptic Voices: Lost Amazon Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Obscure Macro-Matacoan tongue with unique serial verb constructions
  • 2. Panoan dialect notable for syntactic ergativity and switch-reference
  • 3. Non-Panoan language rich in ideophones and evidential prefixes
  • 4. Isolated language weaving complex evidentiality on Amazon's upper reaches
  • 8. Language expressing evidence through complex pragmatics in Amazonian groups
  • 9. Extinct Amazonian language once known for polysynthetic flexibility
  • 11. Macro-Jê isolate with rare phonemic nasal vowels
  • 13. Proto-Tapuia language with elusive syntax from Rio Negro tributaries
  • 17. Arawakan rare dialect with enigmatic noun class markers
Down
  • 5. Endangered Chapacuran tongue marked by intricate tonal patterns
  • 6. Tupi-Guarani dialect with complex verb serialization
  • 7. Ancient, nearly extinct language pivotal to early Brazilian ethnohistory
  • 10. Maku-speaking group known for polysynthetic verbal architecture
  • 12. Unstable linguistic identity with cross-family lexical borrowings
  • 14. Isolated Tupian idiom with rare logophoric markers
  • 15. Little-documented language known for rare ergative structures
  • 16. Language with dense agglutinative morphology within Amazon tribes
  • 18. Peculiar Aguaruna dialect bearer from Peruvian high forests
  • 19. Venezuelan isolate with rare vowel harmony phenomena
  • 20. Controversial language defying universal grammar with minimal recursion

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