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Echoes of Lost Trade Tongues
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  • 1. Term for a trade language or auxiliary tongue
  • 2. Northern Italian dialect used by medieval maritime traders
  • 3. Refers to carved inscriptions often used in mercantile records
  • 4. Semitic lingua franca in Near Eastern trade
  • 5. Classical language central to Mediterranean trade
  • 6. Mythic bird, but also echoes an ancient trading city name
  • 7. Semitic traders famed for early alphabet
  • 14. Polynesian language linked to regional barter systems
  • 17. Chinese dynasty whose dialect influenced Silk Road trade
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  • 8. Native Andean tongue once used in Inca trade
  • 9. Empire’s language that was a trade medium between East and West
  • 10. Ancient city whose trade language remains obscure
  • 11. Egyptian language used by merchants in late antiquity
  • 12. Native American language once used in fur trading posts
  • 13. Ancient Indian language important for regional commerce
  • 15. Language of ancient Roman commerce and law
  • 16. A key Austronesian trade language in Southeast Asia

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