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Echoes of Ancient Tongues
Test your knowledge of lost and obscure languages throughout history with this crossword on forgotten tongues.
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- 1. Family of ancient indigenous languages from Central America
- 2. Mysterious ancient language of Italy predating Latin
- 4. Ancient Semitic language used by maritime traders
- 5. Central Asian language important on the Silk Road
- 7. Ancient Mesoamerican language with undeciphered scripts
- 9. Earliest Semitic language known from Mesopotamia
- 15. Ancient Egyptian cursive writing system for priests
- 17. Hypothetical language often linked with ancient inscriptions
- 18. Associated with the ancient Greek oracle’s dialect
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- 3. Language of an extinct kingdom near Lake Van
- 6. Indigenous North American language with declining speakers
- 8. A common auxiliary language used for communication
- 10. An extinct language from Sierra Leone region
- 11. Ancient Mesopotamian script carved on clay tablets
- 12. East Germanic tongue of the Vandal tribes
- 13. Classical language of ancient India, mostly replaced now
- 14. Ancient Indo-European language of central Anatolia
- 16. Oldest known Indo-European language, from Anatolia
- 19. An extinct language once spoken in southwestern Iran
- 20. East Germanic language of the early medieval period
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