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Echoes of Extinct Linguistic Relics
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  • 1. Epic Sumerian literary classic preserving the language of ancient Mesopotamia
  • 2. Hypothetical linguistic term for the extinct argot of Parthian scribes and traders
  • 3. An ancient, morphologically complex language from the pre-Indo-European Caucasus
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  • 4. Indo-European tongues preserved in Buddhist manuscripts from far-western China
  • 5. Extinct East Germanic language known chiefly from a 4th-century biblical translation
  • 6. An undeciphered language of ancient southwestern Iran, obsolete since the Iron Age
  • 7. Secret cryptolect once used by itinerant Swedish craftsmen, now nearly extinct

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