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Echoes of Forgotten Arctic Tongues
A crossword exploring extinct and endangered languages once spoken across the Arctic region, highlighting cultural heritage and linguistic diversity.
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  • 1. Describes many Arctic languages at risk of extinction
  • 2. Extinct or endangered language from Kamchatka Peninsula
  • 3. Natural feature central to Arctic landscape, metaphor for language extinction
  • 5. Language of the islands between Alaska and Russia
  • 6. Language family including many Alaska Native languages
  • 7. Eskimo language group spoken in Alaska and Siberia
  • 9. Standardized Inuit language dialect
  • 11. Primary mode of transmission for Arctic indigenous languages
  • 14. Indigenous Arctic people with distinct language traditions
  • 15. Ancient culture linked to early Inuit language speakers
Down
  • 4. Extinct language isolate formerly spoken in Louisiana, unrelated but included in puzzle for linguistic contrast
  • 8. Effort to restore lost Arctic languages
  • 10. Language family related to Tungusic peoples, Northern Asia
  • 12. Region hosting many endangered Arctic languages
  • 13. Far Northeastern Siberian language group
  • 16. Turkic language with ancient Silk Road ties, unrelated to Arctic but often confused due to vowel sounds
  • 17. Indigenous people of Northern Europe speaking Uralic languages

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