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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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